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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 645, 2 March 1923, Page 5

A Palmerston North resident who has returned from the Waikato distinct informed a “Standard". reporter that great progress in dairying had been made _ there, while improvements in the Hauraki Plains area were most marked, there being everywhere in evidence in that district remarkab y fine dairy herds, Hamilton, he added, was from a business point of view rather quie, though decidedly prosperous. Mr F. Black, consulting electrical engineer to the Palmerston North Borough Council, hits written to the Mayor, Mr J. A. Nash, M.P., informing him that he is at present giving a series of lectures in the north on railless electric traction. ine writer stated that he had in his possession some 50 slides illustrating the, installations in vogue in several countries, while a moving film depicts the city installations of York (England) and Shanghai (China). Mr Black notified his willingness to give a lecture in Palmerston North if the matter was considered of sufficient importance locally, and Mr Nash purposes bringing it before the Borough Council. Henry William Taylor who has been twice remanded on five cnarges of alleged theft, involving over £BOO, die property of the New Zealand Loan and _ Mercantile Agency Co. Ltd., appeared before Messrs C. H. Whitehead and T. R. Hodder, J, sP„ at the Police Court this morning and was further remanded till Wednesday next. Mr Ongley appeared fof the aooußed. •