IN THE PUBLIC EYE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17978, 15 October 1926, Page 6

IN THE PUBLIC EYE.

NOTES AND ANECDOTES. PRESIDENT of the New Zealand Manufacturers' Federation. Mr E. H. Marriner has long been interested in industrial matters, and is one of the foremost boosters in New Zealand of the oft quoted slogan : “ Buy New

Zealand - made goods". Speaking at the opening of the conference of the federation in Christchurch this Week, Mr Marriner said that the time had arrived in the history of the manufacturing industries of New Zealand when there must be a strong organised central body to carry out the work, a central executive with its headquarters eithelr in Wellington or Christchurch, and a president and executive which could be called together at the shortest notice. It was hoped that, during the coming year, the organisation would undergo a complete transformation, and that a strong committee would be set up to draw up a new constitution. QAXADA'S loyalty to the Empire has been the subject of controversy on more than one occasion, and the influence of America over that British Dominion is verv great, it is said. However, speaking to a gathering of citizens ; before leaving ior j the Imperial Con-! ferenoe, Mr Mac ken- ; zie King, Prime i Minister of Canada, said that he thought i that he would be expressing the wish of the people of Canada if, when he met the King, he were to tell him that nowhere more than in Canada were there subjects who loved him personally and who were loyal to the Crown. He believed in the British Empire as the greatest agency for peace and goodwill the world has ever known. He wanted to see the Empire grow in strength and might, but it could only -grow when' built on the corner stone of self-govern-ment—of self-governing nations within the Empire. * mf JJTSTRTCT Electrical Engineer for Canterbury. Mr R. G. Mac Gibbon is in charge of the Lake Coleridge hydro-electric power scheme, and whenever any interruption or breakdown in the service occurs, it is upon his shoulders that rests the responsibility of having the current restored in the quickest possible time. Recently he had the satisfaction of seeing the No. 7 generating unit--with a capacity of 7500 k.w.—completed and brought into service, thereby easing the demands on the old plant which up till then had been heavily overloaded. Mr Mac Gibbon is now looking forward to the completion of the No. 6 unit with a similar capacity. Tie expects to have it in service about the end of next month, and the full capacity of Lake Coleridge power house will then have been reached. In view of the enormous increase in the consumption of electric power, he is now investigating other sources of supply for Canterbury and North Otago. The completion of the second transmission line from Coleridge to Timaru has relieved Mr Mac Gibbon of a great deal of anxiety, owing to the frequenev of interruptions while there was oiily one transmission line. ¥ V JT OR about twenty years Mr Robert English has been president of the Canterbury Football Association, the controlling body of local Soccer. His heart has been, is, and always will be, in the game, which he regards as the only sport under the sun worth worry* mg about. He gave his name to English Park, known ~s the “Home of iocee.r in Canterufy"; it was in 1912 that the then members of the C.F.A. began to look about them to discover a suitable ground for their sport. They had been in the habit of using Lancaster Park for any match for which they wished to charge a gate, but what with the payment of gate shares to the Rugby Union, the Lancaster Park authorities, the advertising expenses and the share of the New Zealand Football Association, the C.F.A. did not get much out of it. Mr English looked about him, and eventually found English Park. Negotiations were opened in 1913, and the deposit money was paid in July. 1914. For the energy and enthusiasm with which he had inaugurated the movement to acqitire the park, and as he was the originator of the scheme. Mr English was given the honour of christening the park.