WELLINGTON ITEMS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LVI, Issue LVI, 24 October 1908, Page 5

WELLINGTON ITEMS.

WELLINGTON, October 23. The new law providing a reading test in English for Chinese arriving in the Dominion came into force to-day. It is expected this will considerably reduce the number of immigrants from the Flowejy Land. After a Chamber of Commerce banquet, in Wellington, the Main Trunk opening train will leave Wellington, on the evening of Thursday, November 5, and there will be a banquet at Auckland on arrival there on the evening of the 6th. The Wellington branch of the New Zealand Institute of Architects to-night passed a resolution affirming that all Government works of importance should be competed for outside of the Public Works Department, but deprecating anything that may have been said or implied in Parliament derogatory to the Government architect's abilities, and recording confidence in Mr Campbell and appreciation of his devotion to the interests of the Dominion.