TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 4 July 1921, Page 3

TELEGRAM S.

| |IY TEI.KfiIIAPH—PER PRESS ASSOCIATIONJ TOLL-GATES. WELLINGTON, July 1. \pplieations for permission to erect a, toll-gate oil the road to Day’s Brv and at about seven different points n the Taranaki district have been rerebed lately by the Minister of Public. 'Wo.ks (Hon. J. G. Coates). Whether tlu lob- J gate system is to bo perpetuated is mv of the most insistent questions be r > re J the department and the Minister h‘>« now asked three of the depart m-nt’* engineers—Messrs C. J. McKen/i ■>. T. Murray and IT. Sharp—to bring up to date information on the subject. All three engineers have, in siiyc’sssi' u been district engineers in Taranaki. i- - * • SUNDAY RECITALS. i WELLINGTON. July t I The Wellington City Council lias <!•■- cided as a result of consideration by its Finance Committee, to bold orpa" I recitals on Sunday evenings' uiui | church hours. Heavy losses on org.u 1 recitals over a number of years had on used the council, under recent finan- : rial stress to let the Town Hn’l on . Saturday nights, the best paying nif-hl for ordinary shows, finis throwing iic j organ recitals into other dates wilt j had results on the already atton' mterl i attendances. It now is hoped to pc-l "- I larise the recitals bv free adp'i 'S'un. j with a collection. j EIRE'S. j WELLINGTON. July I. i A lire broke out in Denton’s buPd mi in Willis street, in rooms occupied h* ; Foster Brown, engraver. The flames , worked their way to Denton’s store j beneath the building which suffered j damage. The sttjeks of the occupants I were damaged by water, bub riot se i • I pusly. The Insurfinpo on the building is £2OOO, and ori UentniPs stock £1 Ot 0 In the Finn Office