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Taranaki Daily News, 24 January 1920, Page 4

Interest m the Holiday Queen Carnival Contest is becoming keener, especially amongst those who are most interested in the seaside reserves, as the hour <3 closing dfaws nearer. The latest flgurai are: East End 3631, Ngamotu 306fc The voting will be done at 9 o'clocM to-night and arrangements have bee* made to post up to to-day, about ever* two hours, the result of the count ofl votes as they are recorded. / There were persistent rumors in cirl 7 ww W Pl y mouth y«terday t{ the effect that some prominent busiest men were soliciting signatures to a petition praying the Minister not t<* . give effect to the New Borough Council's decision, asking thai Saturday be declared the day for thi weekly half-holiday. * • 7 A land sale that must attract eon< siderable attention to South Taranaki farmers will be held at ManaiToi next Tuesday afternoon, when a smalt farm of 96 acres will be submitted to publ.c auction by Mr. Newton King, when one considers the number of stock this property is carrying, it must ' appeal to land seekers as a most do* sirable farming proposition.