DAMAGE AT NAPIER

Greymouth Evening Star, 27 February 1931, Page 8

DAMAGE AT NAPIER

INSPECTION BY M.’sP.

[I’EB PBESS ASSOCIATION.]

NAPIER, February 27.

Commenting editorially on the coming session, the “Daily Telegraph” says: “It is hoped that before any discussions are entered upon the Government will use a special train and bring the whole of the members of Parliament to view the devastated area. They will then be* all the better able to consider the condition af the towns, and the predicament of the people.” I GOVT. ARCHITECT CRITICISED. WELLINGTON, February 27. In a statement to-day, Mr Taverner i deprecates the remarks attributed in the press to E. R. Wilson in the course of his presidential addresss to the Institute of Architects, which reflect upon the quality and cost of work performed by the Government architect. Mr Taverner says: “It is a matter for regret that the occupant of so responsible an office as President of the Institute of Architects, should have publicly expressed an opinion so damaging to the professional standing of the Government architect, in terms so unspecific as to preclude any reply being made, in defence, except in equally general terms. If Mr Wilson has real grounds for holding the view attributed to him, one would have expected that he would have stated them specifically to the Government, in order that the examples he must be presumed to. have in mind, might be inquired into.” The Minister adds that he had till now withheld comment in expectation that Mr Wilson -would adopt that course, or take such steps as were necessary to correct the injustice of his remarks imposed on the Government architect.

SEAMEN’S GIFT LONDON, February 26. The Lord- Mayor, on behalf of King George’s Fund for Sailors, has handed over £lOOO for the benefit of seafarers’ dependents in the Hawke’s .Bay earthquake district. RECEIVED BY “STAR.” Further donations to the Earthquake Relief Fund received by the “Star” are as follow: — £ s. d. Ngahere School .. .. 3 5 6 MAYOR’S FUND. Additional donations to the Relief Fund opened at Greymouth by the Mayor (Mr. J. W. Greenslade) are: — £ s. d. Grey Power Board . . . . 100 0 0 Proceeds of Railway Ball held Feb. 19, and donations from Steel’s orchestra .. .. 12 1 6 The donation of £lO, acknowledged yesterday as the proceeds of a dance at Ahaura on February 21, per J. Mulcare, should have been credited to the Ngahere Tennis Club, per S. V. Jennings.