PALMERSTON DAY BY DAY.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1013, 31 December 1910, Page 13

PALMERSTON DAY BY DAY.

ARTILLERY WEL- ■ y .- COMIil). .- - v: (By- Telegraph.—Special' Correspondent.) Palmoi'ston North, December 30. • Just how tho town wears the gay aspect which one associates with New* Year.. '.Numbers of the military who have'amved .to take part in the great naval and military tournament to-morrow and Monday. ' Tho mounted troops are in practice for. the various events in which they are engaged, while representatives of other corps are coming.in.by every tram. .Most of them are bivouaced on the show grounds, while others have put up at' the various hotels, etc. The gathering promises to eclipse, previously, attempted here, and, this is saying a good deal. The Tasmariian contingent of field artillery wero accorded a civic welcome at the Council Chambers this morning, and the. Mayor, in extending tho welcome, to them, expressed tho hopo that their visit would be tho precursor of many others. Staff ■ Sergeant-Major Forrest, who is : in charge of tho Tasnianian representatives, in replying,: took tho opportunity to thank all New, -Zealanders for tho splendid hospitality-which had been extended to them ■ all along the line sinco they landed. Other, speakers were: Messrs. D. Buick,.M.P., Haydon, Colonel Pringle, and Captains Palmer 'and Peach.' There was a large and representative gathering, including several ladies. A meeting of veterans is-to be held on Monday morning for. the purpose of forming a branch of the Royal New Zealand Association of. His Majesty's Veterans., The formation of a' branch of tho British Medical Association for Mana'watu and the West Coast was celebrated by a. banquet at the Mounted Rifles' Orderly-Room last night. Dr. P. Skerman, of Marton)-, president ,of tho branch, presided.