UST NIGHT'S TELECRAMS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 12586, 17 October 1911, Page 3

UST NIGHT'S TELECRAMS.

(Per Press Association.) NEW PLYMOUTH, last night. A public meeting adopted the recommendation of a committee to construct a carriage drive and walk m Kawaroa Park on the sea front, and to plant an avenue of trees, these to be known as Tisch Avenue, as a memorial of the late Mr GustaVe Tisch, Mayor of New Plymouth, whose principal hobby was the beautification of the borough and its environs.

WELLINGTON, last night. The, total. Hospital. Saturday t and, Svxiday/collections m Wellington •anidunte'd to £531.

In the Appeal Court the hearing was continued of the, motion on behalf of the ircfe.kla,nd Law Society to have made absolute a rule nisi to strike John Raphael Lundon, of Auckland, off the roll of barristers and solicitors. Mr Morison, replying, dealt with authorities, submitting that the matter was one for the Law Society's consideration, and did not bring Mr Lundon within the Court's jurisdiction. He proceeded to Bhow inconsistencies m the affidavits filed, and submitted that the evidence showed that Mr Lundon, after interviewing another prisoner, was given to understand •■ that Haddon wished him to act for him, and that he had no intention of taking the case out of Mr Skelton's hands, but thought that, as Mr Skelton was onjy a solicitor, he would act with him m the Supreme Court. The case will., be, continued to : morrow.

- - TIMARU, last night. The High School Board has accepted a tender ,i for a new boys' school -with special facilities for teaching agriculture. A total of about 350 boys has alreffdy started some demonstration and experimental plots. The new school will be at the •west 3ide of the town. The rector's boarding house is already m use. The committee of the Chamber of Commerce resolved to support the Dunedin Chamber m urging the Government to lay a new , cable from Melbourne to the Bluff, also to support through interIsland booking by rail and steamer. ' Mr V. G. Day, S.M., mentioned the need -for a place for' boys as an intermediate place between Burnham, for convicted bad boys, and homes for those merely destitute. Adjutant Middlemiss says that the Salvation Army home at Eltham" is just such a place,, but it is too small, and is already full. He suggests that the Government should enlarge and subsidise it, and the Army run ii.