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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1919, 31 October 1906, Page 3

Captain East, superintendent of the Tyser line at Napier, lias submitted to the Wool Fires Commission a ventilator for ships’ holds designed to prevent sparks or spray gaining access to cargo. Mr J. C. Martin, solicitor to the Municipal Association, lias replied to a communication forwarded to him by the Hastings Borough Council, asking his opinion as to Cr George’s right to hold his seat on the Council after being convicted on a cliarga of criminal libel. Mr Martin says that Cr George cannot continue to hold his seat, so that an extraordinary vacancy occurs on the Council which must be filled forthwith, Mr George will be a candidate, There is a sore feeling at Napier ove 1People’s Day of the Show. The Holiday Association decided that' shops should keep open until 11 a.iu., and because many shopkeepers refused to obey the injunction and closed an hour or so earlier members of tho Association got quite angry and wanted the Association wound up altogether. Mr C. Saunders said it seemed to him that the Association had outrun its usefulness. Personally ho would like to sec moro holidays. Napier ho thought observed three holidays less than any of the other cities in tho colony, and it seemed to him that the Association of late years had developed into nothing less than a “ Holiday Preventive Association.”