IN CARNIVAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 25 January 1916, Page 3

IN CARNIVAL.

. AN INGLEWOOD ARMY. STRATFORD RECOMMENDS SCHEME FOUR ARMIES ASSURED. It is now certain that four district armies will take part in the Taranaki Battle of the Bullion, while it is practically certain the end of the week will see the number of armies increased to six. This result is highly satisfactory to the promoters of the Carnival, and with all these armies operating tho whole province will he rapidly over-run by the various forces participating in the Battle of the Bullion. The' position in the various towns is now as follows: New Plymouth.—lt is now proposed to organise one army instead of two, to enable the town to compete with the more wealthy districts in the south. Waitara. —The machinery for equipping an army was set in motion at a public meeting last night. InglewooA.—The Patriotic Committee yesterday decided to enter an army, and a public meeting will be held next' Monday. ' Stratford.—The Patriotic Committee yesterday approved of tho scheme and decided to recommend the public to enter an army. A public meeting will be held on Friday night. Elthain. —The question will be further considered to-morrow, and it is believed Eltham v/ill enter an army. Hawera. —No action taken yet. Patea.—Energetic citizens arc busy getting their army equipped to .take the field. A full day's campaigning was carried out by Messrs W. Lints (the organiser), •I. Clarke (hon. secretary), and J. McLeod yesterday. They motored to Stratford and met .the Patriotic Committee there at 2.30 p.m., after which they went to Inglewood and met the Patriotic Committee there at 4.30 p.m. The party then went to Waitara to attend a publie meeting' there in connection with the Carnival.

INGLEWOOD COMES IN. CARNIVAL STRONGLY SUPPORTED. At Inglewood there was a good attendance of members of the Patriotic Committee :ind Mr. Geo. Young (the Mayor) presided. Mr. J. Clarke outlined ithe plans for managing the Carnival. Mr. W. Lints then explained the working of the Battle of the Bullion. The chairman said he was sure the scheme was one which must appeal to everyone. In answer to a member, Mr. Lints said that his services were at the disposal of every town to give a3 much assistance as ho possibly could. Mr. Lints added that the campaign was so far advanced now that the Carnival must go on, and would be held even if some towns did not enter armies. Those towns, however, would be over-run by neighboring armies. Mr. Percival suggested the committee should support the Carnival, and then hold a public meeting to appoint a committee to manage the Inglewooa army. After a brief discussion in which the scheme was strongly supported, it was resolved that, an army should be entered by Inglewood. The resolution was carried unanimously. It was decided to hold a public meeting a:r. Inglewood next Monday night, at 8 o'clock.

STRATFORD APPROVES SCHEME. PUBLIC RECOMMENDED TO ENTER AN ARMY. There was a good attendance at the meeting of the Stratiord Patriotic Committee, and Mr. J. W. Boon (the Mayor), presided.

Mr. J. McLeod set out the present position. Of three committees approached two—Waitara and Patea—had come in, and the other—Eltham—had simply postponed the matter for a few days. Mr. McLeod then outlined the proposals of the Carnival organisers. It was estimated the Carnival would cost £BOO to run, which would represent 1% per cent, of the £50,000 profit aimed at, and if this was done the Taranaki Carnival would bo the cheapest managed function in the Dominion. It was necessary to launch the scheme early next week, and consequently it was essential thai towns should nominate their armies with as little delay as possible. It was believed that the profits from the functions to be run in New Plymouth would be sufficient to pay for "all ithe district organisation of the Carnival. Mr. W. Lints then explained the plans under which a Battle of the Bullion was carried on. In Wanganui, some £70,000 had been raised, but he considered the possibilities of Taranaki were greater, for there was a more extensive area tn work over and the armies from the different towns would give splendid competition. So far the scheme had gone as smoothly as was possible, and if this continued he felt confident that Taranaki would eclipse the record of Wanganui. Mr. Lints said it was originally proposed to endeavor to raise £50,000, but the scheme had gone so well that he was going to propose that they should aim at securing the £GO,OOO. When the armies were started everyone would have to belong to the army of his town; no one could avoid it, because "mocks courts" would be held in every town and anyone who'did not belong to an army would be taken- before the "mock court,'' and fined until he joined an army. Mr. McLeod explained that the actual Battle of the Bullion would probably only cost about £2OO. A good deal of expenditure would be required for the .Fete of Nations and Paddy's Market, on which generous expenditure was required to make them attractive. The towns out of New Plymouth, however, would only be concerned with the expense of running the Battle of the Bullion.

Mr. W. P. Kirkwood said the scheme appealed to him as a good one. Mr. C. Jackson thought the committee should give a lead to the public and consent to enter an army. The support of the public could then be obtained. He agroed that the venture was a splendid one.

Mr. D. Malonc thought Stratford would eventually enter an army, but they had other schemes in hand at present.

Mr. Lints pointed out that this alone I jriiould bring Stratford in, for if they

had schemes now on hand they could put the profits from them towards their army. This would give Stratford a lead and spur the other towns on. It was decided to call a public meeting, and further that the committee should recommend the public meeting to enter an army from Stratford. It was resolved to call a public meeting for S o'clock on Friday night,