INGLEWOOD.

Taranaki Daily News, 28 October 1921, Page 6

INGLEWOOD.

(From Our Own Correspondent.) October 27. Now that we have had nature’s annual spring cleaning of rain, rounded off by Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday’s southerly blow, we are looking forward, with more confidence than ever, to being able to welcome our sailor GovernorGeneral on Saturday with a full fine weather accompaniment. Even most luke-warm supporters of monarchical institutions will be present, prepared to do honor to the man who lias won for himself such world-wide fame on the world of waters as our present Gov-ernor-General has. If favorable weather prevails we are all going to don our best bib and tucker and turn out on Saturday to pay our respects to the representative of the King. The shops and business places of Inglewood will be dosed from 1 o’clock to 3 p.m., and that most popular Saturday function, Newton King. Ltd.’s mart sale, is to start at 11.30 a.m., so as to be over in plenty of time for all hands to gather at the sports ground for the welcoming ceremony.

A guard of honor of returned soldiers in civilian dress is wanted on the occasion of the Governor-General’s visit on Saturday, and an advertisement elsewhere requests returned men to assemble in front of the post office at 1.30 p.m. It has appeared in the Press that the persons in New Plymouth who wish to revert to the Thursday half-holiday have used, as an argument in support of their desire, a statement that business was being diverted to other places where Saturday was still market day, and that therefore New Plymouth was losing trade. As Inglewood is the nearest such centre your own has made enquiries of business men here, in different branches, and they all say they find ro increase in Saturday’s volume of business in comparison to the steady advance along the whole line accounted for by the growing importance of Inglewood as the best cattle market in Taranaki. One of our leading traders specially emphasised the noticeable increase in the Wednesday’s turnover; Wednesday’s weekly cattle sale he held to be rhe influencing factor. At the same time he was equally emphatic in his assertion that Saturday’s proportion of business had not increased.