At prostnt a. local hoAy has no power to allow discount on rates paid, promptly, but <fl)ly to add a pesjentago to all oveplue fates. This tJisfi.df- • vantage from a bitstacrss point of view lias had tho consideration of the Xfanlston (a s-ulmrb sf . Cliristcfateli) Borough CfcimoU, i«d that tody has reBrfvedr oh tlie recomiiMidatioii of . the Finance Conjnritteo to forward a remit to tins Municipal ■ Corforence, i urging that legislation bo passed allowing public bodies tte power desired, as it was considered, that sueli a system wonld bo of groat aissvstsuiso to tlicir ftianees. An orte for a vessel, which, frill tie the largest eenstracted on the East Coast of Scotland, lias bceii vcco'ivdd bj- tbe Calcdoft Shipbuilding ftnd Company, ef Da.a<Jee, irom Messrs. Alfred Halt and Co., of Liverpool. Tlvo vessel will t>9 of 10,090 tons carrying capacity. The announcement lws been made of fcho marriage of the lev. Br. Cjiidttylaß ■ToiiOij, a Wc-lsh Koneojlfoflnist Iwisr, ftntt Miss May G&rtrudfe James, of Oivmcnrnj Monmouthshire, • who is 2&' yoftrs of a:Sp. Dr, Jones, who'is 75. is-ft Cahinistk Methodist, it cekbrafcod i>raa.eker, n«d a t'Fnceful writer. Tho fioapjp flfs.t wet ! iii "North Waios. \rfeerc the yoirti? btid'o was staying with i-frlativcs. . The wedfjiiig took place very quietly ia Wvftr-T:h-p secrekry cfilio Mcsienji B'ailwny Coiiijiaivy! in a recent hseture to tho teoralHTß of liu' djartoriwl liistMwtj of Secretaries, sni-d that Jiieska-ns had a siwcio.i weakness for hats of tire ea-rtwltco} type. It was licthhi.jr to ato a waa wearsj!» a tat worth Jβ of X-7, while his clothes was not worth 6tl. In olio part of -the Mmntfy it hail br-ftn considered jiß.fcssa.ry to tiass a latf which imposed n fine oft .every mnn having a hat wore than BDlowuje. Tlib ttij-ajl is tii b» adopted ihte T«tr s» o talhuhflji instead of thi? ho««tioe 0-■foW-lea-vMt Shanitoct, and will ijp worn .in the hair m: hats of fashionable women*
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2016, 25 March 1914, Page 9
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