Mass meetings in connection with the liquor question will be held in the Town Hall to-night, Friday, and on Sunday night. Mr. L. M. ■ laitt and Mr. E. S. Gray will Bpeak to-night on "The Demand of the People." The Hon. GsorEc Powlds. 0.8.E.. will occupy the chnir. An organ recital by Mr. 11. White will be held from 7.30 to 8. A collection will be made for wTerevs in the mercantile marine. "The Fallacy of National Ownership" will be the subject of an address to be delivered on Friday, by Mr. James Simpson. On Sunday night "Ths Challenge, of the Church" will be thn subject. nndMhe sprakera will be Rev. R, E. Davien, MyA.. Ilcv. J. J. North, of Ohrietchurch, and the llev. W. A. Sinclair, of New Plymouth. Sir Bnsil Znharoff has placed £25,000 at tlie clispianl of the British Government for the purpose of endowing a Professorship of Aviation. This is in continuation of tloii.ttJ.-wis previously made hy Sir Basil /'aharoff_ for the fmimWion of Chairs of Avintinn at the Universities of Paris and Petrograd. in order to assist in the progress of aviation among the Allies. Mr. Lawrence Weaver. Director of Supplies (Food Production DepartDnrtment), announced in London that Sir Robert M'Aliiine had given £10,000 and promised a further .£IOOO annually for five years towards the foundation nf a trust for a proposed Institute of Agricultural Botany to be established at Cambridge.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 25, 24 October 1918, Page 8
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