It is reported that an addition to the English Navy is a huge battle cruiser the size of the Lusitania. This cruiser, the Hood, is the only completed one of three of the new class, and will probably remain the only one, as it was not considered advisable to complete the other two. The Hood' is the solitary representative of many ideas which would, it was hoped, have inaugurated new methods cf naval fighting, as she is understood to be the finest combination of size, speed, gun-power, and light armour yet dreamed of, and far ahead of the present "hush boats," of which we have heard so much.
Die annual conference of- the Industrial Corporation of New Zealand will be opened in Christchurch on Wednesday next. The Wellington association will be represented by Messrs. H." Mainland (president), C. J. Ward, and R. J. Hardie-Shaw.
Messrs. C. W. Price and Co. will sell furniture in.thoir rooms, 60, Lambtonquay, at 1.30 p.m. to-morrow. On Wednesday, *A 10.30 a,in,, they will sell tho content* of tea rooms tit 175, Adel*id».roid,
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Evening Post, Volume XCVII, Issue 39, 17 February 1919, Page 8
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