DOMINION NEWS

Grey River Argus, 20 October 1934, Page 5

DOMINION NEWS

(Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, October 19. Thb Post and Telegraph Department yesterday accepted the tender of the Precision Engineering Coy. Ltd., Wellington, for the manufacture of motor registration plates. The contract is for a term of five years, as compared with three previously. No details are available. Following strong objections by the Wellington Chamber 'of Commerce to the suggestion made fat the meeting of Hie City Council, that the Corporation might investigate the possibility of doing its own printing, a deputation from the Chamber waited on the Mayor, Mr T. C. A. Hi'slop. The Mayor explained that the Council had no intention of sotting up as printers of its •own stationary requirements. The suggestion was purely the result of a discussion round the Council table, and all that was anticipated was that a report on the general qu'esti'on might be obtained to see what the effect would be of the Council undertaking it own printing.

Plans for the Duke of Gloucester’s visit to Wellington have been finalised He will disembark from 11.M.5. Australia on Saturday morning. December 15, and be welcomed first by the Governor-General, then by the Prime Minister. lie will proceed to tho Town Hall for a civic reception. Tn the afternoon, he will be the guest of the Welington Racing Club at a special meeting at Trantham in his honou’r On Saturday morning, he will attend Divine Service at St. Paul’s ProCathedral. The programme for Monday > ( p>i’ov ikies for the laying of a foundation stone for the new railway station, with a ball in the evening. There will be a children’s demonstration on Tuesday, and the Royal visitor will leave in the evening for Hastings.