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Otago Witness, Issue 2840, 19 August 1908, Page 3

PUBLIC NOTICES. Tgreat hit. EVERYBODY WILL WANT A COPY. FRANCIS AND DAY'S 27th ANNUAL, Containing 24 of their latest published SONG and BALLAD SUCCESSES, Including — "If those lips coukl only speak," "Rob Roy M'lntosh." " And the parrot eaid," "Poor John," "Potted Poetry," "Molly Mollyneux"; i And the other 18 are just aibout as popular. ORDER NOW. "We expect theao in July, and as the demand will be enormous, we will execute orders in priority of receipt, so that if you don't order at once you may be kept waiting for your copy till the second supply arrives. j Price, Is (or posted Is 2tl) per copy. \ ALEX. ~SIiIGO, : Bookseller, Stationer, &c, I 42 GEORGE STREET, DUNEDIN. j jHAST£R PRIMERS' ASSGCIA- ; TIOS SOCIAL. ! The annual social in connection with the Otago Master Printers' Association was held in the Caxlton Cafe on the 14th, aaid was very largely attended, many country districts being reurcwu-nted. A business meeting was held previous to the social, at which Mr J. Stone was elected president, ( Messrs J. Cooke and H. Harris lice-prcu- ; dents, and Messrs J. M'lndoe, A. Sinclair, I W. G. Somcrville, J. AVallaee, T. Coull, j and C. Robertson a committe. The com- i pany that assembled in the dining-room | aftervards, as before indicated, was a , numerous one, and a most convivial aiid ! enjoyable time was spent. J Tlie toa^t of ''The Kmg " was proposed ', by the Chairman (Mr J. Stone), and i\as honoured with the customary enthusiasm, music and speech-making following. ' The Retinng President (Mr W. G Somcrville) proposed the toaat of " The Prcswient," whieli v>as briefly responded to by Mr Stone. Mr W. R^od, in proposing success to the association, gave some intoi eating ' reminiscences concerning uhe condition of the trade in the early sixties. It was then, he said, in a very primitive state, and the appliances weie of a very primitive order. He referred to the prices o!>tair.-ed for work, which, Lc said, showed that tho vrohts w<to not small. Wage*- were al^o high. tuid the Typographical Association existed only practically for convivial purposes, and there was no friction. The only two old members of the trade he could rocall still with them were Mcssi-b Humphrey and Hanson. The lalo Mr J. A. Toi i-.triec. v, ho d ; c/l but p v few clays a£r.-> ' ■".as al^o early a c =ceiated wills ihe trade. Tho esprit <ie corps among primers in those <H>s was of tiie highest possible oider, aiid the borrowing of x^lant was of common occurrence. The toast, on being drunk, was acknowledged by Messrs Cook© and Harris, borh of whom touched upon the business of tho avvua*;on Mr lli'.worklgc proposed ihe toast of "'The Pr<~=s '' in an eulogistic ep-eeoh, both Vac 8 toiist anil the spopch being acknowledged by ! Mr G. Fen wick and Mi Fleming, of the ! Chi tha Le-w?cr. I Mr J. M'lndoe. in proposing the toast of " The Retiring l'rftsi<lent," referred to the good r.ork Mr G. W. Somerville ha<i de-no wh:!<- in the nc-Ition. and acknowViigtd the valujLle an:>l-tarKr;a n: >l-tarKr; lie had ren«l< i i iL Oihor forf^;* were honosuecl. and s-omo o\-c«''ilrr>: mu-io was provided by quite a host of singers, among whom were Mcni HrtMc-rule-r. Tooke, Dick, -Jolly, and "Wall. Tho pi orcoflings wore kept up with jrreat spn it for between two and threo horn*. WESTPORT STOf RTOX COAL- | MINE. I WESTPORT, August 13. I A lar<ro number of people availed them-to-day of tlie invitation to inspect the We^t port-Stockton Company's powerhouse at Xgokawau and witness the .'ettin^r in motion of the mam generating ■machinery. The trial run was very successful, the machinery working without a liitch. To-morrow the laying down of •the raile to Mangatiri'a, the outer boundary of the company's property, will bo completed, co that the internal work of the bins, the machinery in which ie all to be -worked by electricity, and the finishing touches to the electric installation aie practically all that is required to bring the property up to the coalproducing stage. Kerosene was first Used for lighting purposes in 1826. •