25 YEARS AGO

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 47, 18 November 1932, Page 10

25 YEARS AGO

Saving Day’s Bay Bush (From “The Dominion,” Nov. 19, 1907.) The possible destruction of timber in the Day’s Bay 'bush lias exercised the thoughts of the committee of the Scenery Preservation Society at a meeting held yesterday afternoon. It was decided after a long discussion to obtain signatures to a petition, which, it is hoped, to present to the City Council on Thursday, asking the Government to acquire the bush for a national park. * « * Those interested in shipping expect to see the Union Company’s new turbine flyer, the Maori, lower the record from Lyttelton to Wellington on her initial run from the south to-night. •' » * The new Wellington Post Office, which is to cost about £70,000, and of which the plans are now in course of preparation, v will be one of the largest and most expensive buildings ever erected in the Dominion. The new Public Trust Building, .now in course of erection, and to cost' £40,780, has been described as the biggest building contract ever let in Wellington. Soon that will have to take second place.

Mr. W. F. Massey (Leader of the Opposition) received word yesterday of the death of his father-in-law, Mr. Walter Paul, of Mangere, Auckland, a very old settler. Mr. Massey received the news too late to attend the funeral.

Mr. Asquith, Chancellor of the Exchequer, speaking at Nuneaton, said: —“Now it is plain that the Tory Party as a party has been captured by the Protectionists, and the Liberal Party stands between the country and protection.