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Evening Post, Volume LXXXII, Issue 150, 22 December 1911, Page 8

Mr. J. B. Clarkson, managing dinectorof thefirmof J. B. Clarkson and Co., Ltd., returned to New Zealand yesterday from a five months' trip to the United States, Canada, and the Old Country. In regard to the motor and cycle business, in which his firm is interested, Mr. Clarkson told a Post representative that the Americans are taking possession of the worlds markets with cheap motor care — invading England with them, in fact. The English manufacturers, however, (Still carry on a good business in the better class of cars, but they are looking closely into the subject, and Mr. Clarkson is of opinion that before long they will have worked out a system of specialisation which will enable them to compete successfully with the American firms. The motor bicycle business, he found, is booming in America and England, and producers are hard pressed to fulfil orders. In England the bicycle business is in a very solid position, and" manufacturers are capable of responding to any demands that may be made upon them. Mr. Clarkson is leaving for the South this evening. A festival service is to be held in St. Matthew's (Anglican) Churoh, Brooklyn, on Christmas Night at 7.30. Carols and anthems, including selections from the "Messiah" and "Elijah," will be rendered by the choir. Word has been received from Christchurch that the entries for the New Zealand Lawn Tennis Association's championship meeting are splendid. All the Australians taking part in the Davis Cup contest have entered for the championships, and Beals- Wright and M'Loughlirt, two of the American Davis Cup challengers, for "the singles. At a^ meeting of the Wellington Centre of the New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association last evening, permission was granted the Seatoun Club to hold a meeting. It was decided to grant the New Zealand Council the use of the centre'® gear for the purposes of the Australasian championships. Eegarding the provincial championships to be held on the 10th February, Messrs. Barrett, Kitto,_ and Cousens were appointed a committee to draw up the programme. It was decided to apply for the control of the 1912 cross-country championships. The secretary of the Home for the Aged Needy acknowledges with thanks Christmas donations from Mrs. W. R. Williams, £2 2s; aim. Rhodes, £1; Mr. T. Whitehouse, £1 Is; Messrs. R. Hannah and Co., £1 Is; Mrs. Manly, 10s 6d. Donations will be thankfully received to enable the trustees to provide the inmates, forty- three in number, with some extra treats fov Christmas and New Year. . • When ttie ' Parsons turbine was installed in the hew electric-light station in Mercer-street, a very considerable economy of fuel was effected. Then it was found that there was a certain waste in carrying the steam from the boilers alongside Harris-street over some distance of piping to the turbine, and so the boilers were shifted from their old location to the boiler house alongside the turbine. Finally, to complete the economy of steam, and therefore of coal, the Electrical Engineer (Mr. Stuart Richardson) has installed a huge rotary fan to draw the furnace gases through stacks of pipes, by which the water is heated for supplying the boilers, and j then pass them to the chimney stack. This fan is electrically driven by a 50-h.p. motor direct-coupled, running at from 200 to 300 revolutions a minute. The motor. has only just been put in position. The fan will commence operations after i the holidays. -