GENERAL TELEGRAMS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 255, 3 December 1909, Page 2

GENERAL TELEGRAMS

THAMES ITEiIS. I l'y Telegraph.—Press Association. _ . Thames. Lust Night, hepairs ni'o now iieing made to ihe pumping plant owned bv (he Gorcrnnient and mannged by "the Drainage Board. The broken rod has been rcco"/«ed nnd repairs arc in band. The wafer is now at the «30 icct level and will not be lowered to a thousand feet until the end ot February.

i l ,l ' o P o6etl to hold a band cont?st fit I names next year. Enquiries arc being made with the object of holding a tire brigade demonstration, and correspondence is now pa ;sSplendid progress i„ being made witti lie drainage 011 the Hauraki Plains, formerly the Fiako Swamp. The dredges arc doing good work, and n In rgc portion of the Government land is Carrying splendid feed. I

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- Christchurch, Thursday. Hie refusal of the Government to '>ivc details of revenue and expenditure" of lie Chnstehirch-tyttelton line has ii'jt I been viewed with favor. The Mayor says the systematic obstruction offered seems to show that there is more behind Hian we think, and that the (iovenliicnt are probably making more profits tlifin reported hy the railway returns, The same policy has been adopted by all liovernments and the attitude assumed will strengthen the agitation for th» canal.

THE METHODIST CHURCH, i- Auckland. Thursdav. The Methodist Synod, after a lon» debate, voted on the question of an iifdependent conference—a separation from Australia. Twenty-seven voted'for the proposal and twenty-four against it.