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Taranaki Daily News, 8 February 1934, Page 4

'He could not be certain whether he could visit New Plymouth at the time of the Central School jubilee or not, wrote the Rt. Hon. G. W. Forbes, Prime Minister, in a letter replying to an invitation from the jubilee committee. The Prime Minister added that he would advise the committee at a date nearer the time of the celebrations whether he could attend.

When a well known horse was going through his trial on the New Plymouth track yesterday morning watchers were surprised at the antics of the jockey. The horse stopped before the post was reached. It transpired that the rider had suffered a slight accident; he had parted company with his false teeth. The teeth were subsequently found intact.

In the course of some reminiscences of early Wellington, Mr. W. F. Gordon, of New Plymouth, recalls that he was a shipping reporter on the old Wellington Independent in 1871, when the personnel of the staff was: Mr. T. McKenzie, proprietor; Mr. Hay, editor; Mr. A. Read, sub-editor; Mr. F. McCarthy (late editor of the Grey River Argus), reporter; Mr. George Fisher (late M.H.R.), reporter; and Mr. E. Banister, compositor and reader. Mr. Fisher was afterwards the Hon. George Fisher, Minister of Education in one of the Ministries of the ’eighties. “All these have long since handed in their last copy,” writes Mr. Gordon, “which leaves me the sole survivor of that literary staff of over 63 years ago.” So impressed is the Prime Minister with the reception accorded him in the South Island that he has decided to undertake at an early date a tour of the centres in the North. Mr. Forbes will return to Auckland on Thursday, and attend the opening of the Royal Show. Subsequently he will return to Wellington, and later visit Taranaki, Rotorua, the Waikato and possibly Auckland, delivering addresses and meeting representative • citizens. “The feeling in the South Island was distinctly favourable to the Government, and there was a general acknowledgement that the Administration had faced a difficult task and carried out the policy it considered to be most appropriate to the circumstances,” said Mr. Forbes to-day. “I have not had an opportunity yet of testing the feeling in the North Island, but I hope to do so at an early date.”

William John Revell, who last week admitted paternity of four of five children by a woman now deceased, but disputed paternity of the fifth and youngest yesterday at the New Plymouth Magistrate’s Court before Mr. W. H. Woodward, S.M., admitted being the father of this child. An order was made accordingly.