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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 9547, 30 September 1902, Page 4

A movement is on foot by the various tennis and bowling clubs of the colony (says the- Press) to get an alteration of the Rating Act, so as to exempt their respective greens and courts from rating, on the ground that they are used for recreation only, and not as a source of personal profit. At Stettin on August 12, in the presence of the German Emperor, the Now German liner Kaiser Wilhelm 11. was launched here at the Vulcan Yard. The christening ceremony was performed by | Fiuulein Wiegand, daughter of a director of the steamship company. The new ship is the largest and fastest liner afloat. She is 707 ft long, and has a displacement of 26,000 tons, and engines of 40,000----horse power. It is hoped that she will make more than twenty-four knots an hour. She can carry 1^250 passengers.