Notes and Queries

Otago Witness, Issue 3724, 28 July 1925, Page 44

Notes and Queries

The Alleyn Olub is about to publish the Dulwich College Register, with the names of governors, masters, assistant masters, and boys from 1858 to 1923, and notes against each. Questionnaires have been sent to all living O.A.’s and the representatives of deceased O.A.’s whose addresses are known. The compilation will now be taken in hand, and the early return of questionnaires is requested. O.A.’s who have not received them are requested to send their names and addresses to the editor, Lieu-tenant-colonel T. L. Ormiston, Trood House, Alphington, Exeter, Devon. At noon on Friday a milestone in the history of the Exhibition was passed when buildings Nos. 1 to 7, which comprise the main pavilions in which the exhibits will be housed, were officially handed over by the contractors to the Exhibition authorities. Mr J. Y. Love, who was accompanied by Mr Robert Love and Mr John Fletcher, formally handed over the keys to the president, Mr J. Sutherland Ross, who was accompanied by the general manager, Mr C. P. Hainsworth. Exhibitors will now be able to go ahead with the erection of their stands and get them completed before the rush of the last few weeks. A large number of orders for stands have been placed with various city contractors, and a start has already been made in n few cases.

Mr L. W. Potter (Mtryor of Milton) will visit Wellington this week and will wait upon the Prime Minister and Minister of Finance to :;sk that favourable consideration be given by the Government to the Milton Borough Council’s application for a grant of £2OOO to assist it in restoring its water supply by the formation of a reservoir, to leplacc the collapsod water tower. The application was recently declined by the Government. Referring to the resumption of the gold •standard, the Minister of Finance, in delivering his Financial Statement in -the House of Representatives on Friday, said that the change would, at all events for the present, be confined in New Zealand to the import or export of gold by the banks in torins of the legislation of 1915, which authorised the issuo of permits by the Minister of Finance. The reversion to gold at once effected a readjustment of exchange rates to the groat advantage of New Zealand producers. There was a corresponding loworing of the premium enjoyed by importers during the last few years, but this might, the Minister added, be regarded as a probable help to our secondary industries, which had been adversely affected by tho favourable conditions accruing to imported goods in this respect.