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Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 16681, 2 March 1920, Page 2

An alarm of fire was given' at about 8.30 o’clock this morning from a house at the corner of Brown Street and Gill Street owned by Mr. W. N. Ewing and occupied by Mr. Henderson. The Central Brigade proceeded to the scene and the flames were quickly extinguished. "The outbreak had. started in a children’s play-room and the only damage done was to the play-things. The council’s policy was only to take land for road widening when such was absolutely necessary. The money had to come out of road revenue, which could not bear the cost, and it would mean, if all the requests tor road widening were acceded to, a loan would have to be floated. At a later stage the matter was discussed by the council and it was ultimately agreed on the motion of Councillors Short and Griffiths, who strongly opposed any action that did not provide for a 66ft. road, to defer the matter pending a further inspection of the locality. “Mercatio" in the Auckland Herald remarks: There was a strange sentence in the wireless message received from the Mokoia the other day: "The party is realising the distance separating New Zealand from its dependencies.” That sounds very like home-sickness. The public impression of the trip was that ‘it was a rather merry party, with plenty to eat and other ways of killing dull care. But here we have the members of the party really thinking about us and wishing they hadn’t gone. Perhaps the explanation is that the message was written on Sunday just after service, when Sir James Ailen read the lesson and Mi\lsitt JfliYensdthe sermon,^