TO WHICH QUEEN?

Sun (Christchurch), Volume II, Issue 565, 1 December 1915, Page 11

TO WHICH QUEEN?

HARBOUR BOARD AND THE CARNIVAL. "Which queen are we supporting in the approaching Queen Carnival, Mr Chairiiian?" asked Dr H. T. J. Thacker, M.P., at the close of this morning's meeting of the Lyttelton Harbour Board. The chairman glanced at the secretary, who explained that the board supported the Public Service Queen, who would represent all the public services. _ Dr Thacker said that he asked because of the necessity of deciding how much the board should give to its candidate. As there was to be a meeting of the finance committee on December 30, he thought that the board should name an amount as the lirnt which the committee should give, and then let the committee fix whatever amount, not exceeding that, which it thought should be given. Mr Hugo Friedlander: I should think, doctor, that you would do it the other way about. Mr F. Horrell remarked that the board had already given £IOOO to patriotic funds. It was a question whether the board should give anything for the Public Service Queen, in preference to the Queen of the North, the Queen of the Peninsula, or any of the other queens, for the board represented the whole of Canterbury. t Mr Horrell was proceeding to speak on the matter, in an adverse way, when l)r Thacker interjected: "But I'm asking the chairman, not you." After Mr J.- J. Dougall had pointed out that some employers* were subsidising the efforts of their employees, the board referred the matter to the Harbour Improvement Committee, which consists of the wholes board, sitting in committee, with power to act.