NOTES AND MEMORANDA.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 11483, 16 January 1903, Page 6

NOTES AND MEMORANDA.

Public meetings to consider the question of Greater Christchurch will be held in St. Albans, as under, at 8 p.m.:—Monday, 19th inst., at Wesleyan schoolroom, Rugby street; Wednesday, 21st, at Knightstown Library. The half-yearly general meeting of the Union Rowing Club will be held at th. boathouse on Friday, 23rd inst., at 8 p.m.

The annual general meeting of the Industrial Association will be held at the rooms of the Association, Canterbury Hal!, on Friday, 30th inst. The last day for receiving nominations for officers is Friday, 23rd inst. A meeting of the livery Stable Workers' Union will be held to-i>ight at the Temnerance Hall at 8.30 o'clock.

The annual statutory meeting of the Lyttelton Harbour Ifoard will be held on Monday next, at noon. • The competition by the local Fire Brigades will take place to-morrow afternoon at Lancaster Park. One of the most interesting items on the programme will be the first appearance of a Ladies' Fire Brigade team, who, it as said, will give an excellent exhibition of work.

Tbe next of the series of local wool sales will open to-day at 9 a.m., at the Onterhurv Hall.

The annual meeting of the Christchurch Building and Land Society (permanent) will be held to-night at eight o'clock, in tbe offices of the Society, 146 Hereford street. The friends of Mr Geo. Witty, M.H.R . fiw Riccarton, are arranging for a social at which he will be entertained, and a meeting of the Committee will be held at Tattersall's Hotel on Saturday evening at 8 o'clock..

A most valuable discovery, calculated to practically revolutionise the brick trade in this colony, is about to be put into active operation. We refer to -he manufacture of indeMructible lime and sand bricks under Baron Barreto'e patents, the sole rights for which, as regards New Zealand, were obtained in October, 1901, having been secured by a Wellington syndicate. The process has been thoroughly tested on the Continent, and proved' to be a thorough success, this being fully demonstrated by the fact of some twentyfour factories working under these patents in Germany. The bricks can be made to any colomrvgdesired, are o£ uniform size, and equal to the best sandstone. They do not require to be burnt, nor is skilled labour requisite in their manufacture; consequently they can be produced in England at a cost of 8s 9"jd per thousand, and at a corresponding price in New Zealand, allowing for the higher rates paid for labour, etc. As sitated in an advertisement in another column, those desirous of arranging for the rights for Canterbury district should communicate with Messrs Harcourt and Co., Wellington, agents for the vendors. 6