The Government is setting -si good example in Wellington in building on a plan Calculated to be proof against earthquakes, as far *nsi may be .practicable- The Goveniment 'architect (Mr J- Catapbell) has -replaimed a new Public 'Itust Office on the steel frame principle^ which was tested satisfactorily in San Francisco in April. A youth .nainiied Aa-thua" Johiainnseiii oomoxitted suicide at Mr J. WBerry's farm, in the Glenfui district, by hanging 'himself to m tree in the kishi. Deceased made awiay Avitlil himself without any apparent reason, excepting that his miiod was 'banefully influenced by novels of the "Penny Dreadful" oliass 2 of which he was an. aivaiieious reader-
.Ait tliei'MuEuieipal Conterenece at Wellington delegates from Auckland, Oamaru, Thames, Martora, and Waihi proposed that in regard to local elections a returns to the former system ■of crossing out the name for the proposal objected to instead of putting a cross opposite to the name or proposal should be made-—Tfo.e pwtion was unanimously agreed to.
Sound advertising is the stepping ctone to prosperity.
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Thames Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 10591, 8 September 1906, Page 4
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