GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 223, 20 March 1914, Page 2

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

LOCAL BODIES' ENGINEERS. By Telegraph.—Press Association. , Auckland, Thursday. The annual conference of the New Zealand Institute of Local Government Engineers opened under the presidency of Mr. S. Jickell. Welcoming the visiting members the Mayor (Mr. Parr) made a strong appeal for town planning on which subject Mr. John Kelly (Southland) read a paper, urging that the first principle of such should be provision for a drainage scheme and the first street should be located on the line most convenient for the main sewer. BANDSMEN IN TROUBLE. Wellington. Thursday. An inquiry will be held by the North Island Brass Bands' Association at Palmerston North next week into the demonstration made by a large number of the competing bandsmen against the judge during the Exhibition contest in Auckland last month. It is understood that charges of alleged misconduct in this connection have bene preferred tv the Exhibition authorities against' the Wellington City and-Wanganui Brass Bands.

' THE SALVATION ARMY. Foxton, Thursday. Commissioner Richards opened the new Salvation Army Hall, - here last night. During his speech he said that since bis* arrival in New . Zealand £40,000 worth of property had been acquired, of which the public had contributed nearly £20,000. The sum of £250 had been set aside for acquiring site 3in risino: townships. A schem? for widening the scope of the social operations of the Army would be coisidered at an early date.