FEILDING ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1136, 25 May 1911, Page 5

FEILDING ITEMS.

Mr. J. G. Gilbt'i-d, for very many years .superintendent of the Napier Fire Brigade, and secretary of Ihe United Firo Brigades' Association, was a visitor to Feilding this week. Ho was 'taken over the local' station.- aiid,- after inspection, expressed satisfaction at its arrangements. Twenty-four residents answered Ihe call of the Mayor (Mr. Goodbehcre) to consider what form the Coronation Day celebrations should lake in Feilding. It. was agreed that the official and semi-religious ceremony at noon, in which the schools and Maoris will participate, should bq followed . by. an afternoon gathering. Whatform Iho latter should take (a. district tug-of-war is suggested) was left, to a committee to decide. The committee consists of Ihe Mayor and Councillors, Ciiptnin Baillron, the Revs. Innes Jones (Anglicin) and Hudd (Presbyterian), Messrs.' Atkinson. Bramwell, Fisher. M'lnlyrc, Thomson, Colliiigwood, and Montgomery. Empire Day was observed with a. small show of pomp and ceremony at tho two schools in Feilding yesterday morning, and a holiday was granted- for. the rest of the day. ' The chairman,' Mr. Hugh M'lntvre, and Mr. Geo- F.ilznatrick (of the school committee) gavo brief addresses at tho District High School, and Mr. Fred. Pirani, as chairman of the Wnnganni Education Board, was tho piincipol Kpeakfr. .