INDUSTRIAL ASSOCIATION.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1664, 20 January 1904, Page 2

INDUSTRIAL ASSOCIATION.

A meeting of the Wellington Industrial Association was ’held on: the 12th. Mr Peter -Hutson, presided in the absence of the president, Mr Thomas Bab . linger. Sixteen members attended. . The Secretary of the Customs Department wrote .stating that be . necessary for the ’ promoters of the exhibition to give security for the pay- . mc.nt of duty on any portion of the ini-, ported machinery which- may not be exported y after, the exhibition is over. This, - the writer pointed out, ..would be best secured by. an application to the Commissioner to have ' the.-exhibition buildings declared a bonded warehouse and the giving of a bond Tor the ’esu-y inated amount of duty on the goods. Itwas 'agreed to-- fall inY with The sugges- ’ t-ion put forward.

.- Mr A. M. Conroy, secretary of the .Hawera and District Industrial •Exhibition, .of 1904, wrote thanking the secretary (Mr-Allen) and the committee of; the association for the • many courtesies and assistance given during his recent vj.sit to 'Wellington.- I —Received. Mr Samuel Brown wrote stating that he would be unable, to act on the Finance Committee. . As- -hey t went a:, good deal about the'country in connec- - 1 t-ion with Arbitration Court work, he said he thought he could do Lome good ,by bringing the exhibition under the | ■notice of manufacturers and others, if i he was properly authorised to do so. He suggested that before finally adopting jThQ T:lT ns fov the exhibition tlie cycle ; track shonld; be struck out.. The novelty ; of. cycle (racing liad worked off, and the : - lirohey required for. a track could bo botterYspent in, many other ways. .- There’seemed to be a preponderance of opinion that: cycling was “ done,” as the . chairman put it. The .’reading of the letter ; was . greeted with a chorus' of ‘‘ hear, hears.” Mr Speed, in speaking op. the-appointment of. a committee to manage the athletic part of the show, y;said that Wellington had - just.rtin a j (very successful sports meeting,- and it(was necessary - that: y those who had charge of the events in- .question • slipuTd: know what they were doing.

The -matter - of ; appointing Mr Brown to; some other position was briefly discussed, and it- was ultimately unahiinousr lyY agreed that he should he' appointed Special Commissioner to represent the association throughout the colony. A meeting will be held m. a, few days tq.appoint chairmen of-committees. .‘The following' phew members were, elected : —Messrs- R. B. Tingey, Stockley . Jones and Edwin Arnold.

r.A resident' of . "Wellliiigtoh wh'o had been gazetted' missing since the- end of November was found last week ,at. Red Cliffs,. near Tera-wh'iti. living, the .life of an outcast. He was subpoenaed bo- attend as. a juryman -at- last criminal ses--010119 of . the Supreme Court, and disappeared almost immediately. Whether the contemplation of the onerous duties involved in deciding technicalities of “two-up;’ or tlie prospect of sitting on a common jury to. deal with a ' couple of . amateur burglars upset his. ineutal equii librium 'is an opeii question; certain it is that he retreated at the time to the rura.l wilds of Makara. and.was found there, on th;e 12th under extraordinary conditions. Three sportsmen out pig-shooting had their■ attention attracted to-a-patch of scrub by the loud barking of their dogs. One of the trio, thinking they had discovered a boar, suggested shooting into the cover, hut was restrained by his companions. A closer inspection revealed the presence of a human being, half-dressed, and sleeping on an old sack. How the. man had managed to live is a mystery. The nearest habitation was eight miles away. It is improbable, that -lie received any food from people residing in the district. He was unable to give an intelligible account of his experiences, and the police and his relatives were communicated with.

There ha,s just died at Ashley (Canterbury), Mr D. Dick, a land valuer for the Government for the past twentytwo years. Deceased claimed Tam o’ Shanter, of Burns’s poem, as Ills greatgran cl father, and he possessed many relics of his ancestor and of the poet. Mr Dick was a native of Ballantrae, in Ayrshire. He left Scotland for New Zealand by the ship Glenmark, arriving at Lyttelton in January, 1865. A correspondent, who signs himself “Doughy,” complains in the Woodvi'le “Examiner” that exorbitant prices are being charged for bread, and suggests tiiat a co-operative bakery be established.

' At a meeting of the Master ton Dairy Company on Wednesday £775 was paid out tie suppliers for milk supplied during December. . ■