TOWN EDITION.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15446, 15 February 1921, Page 6

TOWN EDITION.

Hobart: Sailed, Joan Craig, for New Zealand. 1 A civic reception is to be tendered to (bo members of the Parliamentary party in His Majesty’s Theatre on Friday evening next at 7.30 p.m. , Dr. Sandes, who lias been conducting a health examination of the schools of tliis district, leaves for Wairoa this week. Mr Hoi ert Houghton, carpenter, who resides in Harris Street, was admitted > yesterday afternoon to the Cook Hospital with a fractured leg.

The Borough Council are holding a general “clean-up” next week. Residents are requested to have all receptacles ready for the borough carts when they

call. 'the Council meeting of the Chamber of Commerce has been adjourned till February 25, so as not to clash with the visit of the Parliamentary party to Gisborne. From inquiries made to-day at the Cook Hospital it was learned that Mr Walter Bennett, who was injured in a

motor accident on Thursday last, was doing well. A 250-acre -farm on No. 1 road, Waitoa, was sold a day or two ago at £95 per acre (says the Morrins%*illo Star), an advance of £lO on the price paid the previous season. Mr. W. A. Veiteh, M.P., is organising the Wanganui and Inland Development League. He is enthusiastically preaching the gospel of development, and if the West Coast districts do not ptill together in their own interests in future it will certainly not be his fault.

As a result of the Gisborne Racing Club’s summer meeting ths Government revenue gains £2292 2s. This is made up of totalisator tax £1176 11s 6d, dividend tax £1059 2s, gates £22 9s 6d, privileges £4 ss, stakes £29 14s. Besides this there is still the amusement tax to pay. The supplementary roll for the borough election is now in preparation, but, although due notice has been given, so far no applications for enrolment have been made, and it is very evident that unless electors whose names are omitted bestir themselves there will be many lamenting their inability to vote on the day of the election. A “Back to Maryborough’’ (Victoria) movement.has been launched, and is being strongly organised. The celebrations will begin on April 23, and terminate on April 30, the programme for the week consisting of An/.ac sports, carnivals and gymkhanas. ‘Entertainments will lie held every night. All former residents are requested to forward their names to the secretaries, when an invitation will be immediately posted to them.

| In view of the approaching municipal election, the Greater Wellington Town Planning and Municipal ' Electors’ Association and fifteen electors and ratepayers’ associations have constituted a special election committee to carry out a programme of organisation. This Greater®Well : ngton Election Committee lias appointed an executive of seven members. Steps are being taken to select a candidate for the Mayoralty", and candidates for the City Council, Harbour Board, and Hospital Board. ! The annual Press Conference will commence in Wellington next week. The meetings of the directors of the United Press Association will open on the 18th inst., afid the annual meeting will he held on the 23rd. The Newspaper Proprietors' Association of New Zealand will hold the annual meeting on the 21st., and the annual meeting of the New Zealand branch of the Empire Press Union will be held during the same week. At the conclusion of these and other Press gatherings the Master Printers’ Federation of New Zealand will hold their annual meeting. j Citing the case of a New Zealand firm j which manufactured a material for 7s a ! yard, which material sold to the public at more than three'times that figure, Mr : J. Findlay (Auckland) argued before the j Industrial. Conference that the cost of salesmanship, of distribution, should not surely he worth thrice as much as the (ost of the raw material to the manufacturer and tjie manufacturer’s profit. I “If arrangements cannot be made by the manufacturers with the merchants for ; a reasonable profit,” he said, “then 1 • think some other means of distribution should be adopted.” (Hear, hear.)