MR. RUSSELL AT TIMARU.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 148, 21 June 1912, Page 7

MR. RUSSELL AT TIMARU.

■ SEVER&h DKPCTAIICNS. I ®? 1 Telegraph.—Press Association.) J ?.- . . ' — I :, ,; TIMAKU, Thursday. ( G..W. Russell a. few ■ "Ws'in Timaru to-day, and received a ■.^^K, of .deputations. A proposal was ■"•w-fcs Mm ■with regard tolieving fKa • j;r?«»ttiotfß gifts to H.M.S. ZeaJertia,! 5 Us? i°:heT -while she ivas named New |«*JM, transferxed to the later Xew jj'Sw, Mr.'.BusseU said it would be a y*^ remove the gifts, and suggested v . '■■-■■"

fhx£ 33ma.ru should inaugurate a BK?ve* ment for a present to the Dominion ibip. If that were done, the Edncafcion Department would ■undertake much of the leutine work, and w6uld give a subsidy. In reply to a request that the Trotting Club should nave a racing permit, the Minister promised to dp his best. If he had 25 more permits he oould m«et the demand; without them, the only way would be to review the allocations to the metropolitan clubs. Mr. Kxrsaell recommended a deputation from the Hospital Board to have a maternity ■ward built, and another for the observation of mental cases.