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Taranaki Daily News, 3 November 1920, Page 1

PUBLIC NOTICES. "pE gOROUGH LOANS. TO THE RATEPAYERS. Ratepayers' Meeting ever held in Plymouth, resolutions were carried urging the Ratepayers to vote for the £22,500 loan for extra oars, etc., and for the £27,300 for Railless to Westown and Vogeltown. If you adopt the advice of the meeting you will require to vote FOR the proposals on the White Bo not he led away by the bogie that the New Plymouth roads are not good enough for the Rallies, to operate upon. Sir Arnold Gridley, formerly Director of Electrical Supplies for .Great Britain stated: j ' That the New Plymouth roads were infinitely better th\n the roads over which the Eailless at Middlesborongh operated, and in his opinion the Railless S y S t em would be a success in New Plymouth. Mr. W. H. Morton, City Engineer, Wellington, stated that: ■ Railless cars do not cause any more damage to the road surface than petrol buses. In England,, where the Railless operates over ouiside districts, those districts charge only the very small amount of three farthings per car mile for maintenance of roads. On this basis the additional cost of town and Vogeltown roads due to the Railless would be the small amount of £234 per annum. You should, therefore, have no doubts in voting for the Railless to-dav

Vote for the proposal on the White and on the Red Voting P aper 3. J. CLARKE, Mayor. . SEW PLYMOUTH BOWLING CLUB. T HE om ?M Opening of the New Plymouth Bowling Club will take Place on the Brougham Street Green TO-MORROW (Thursday), November 4, 1020. f • Play will commence at 2 p.m. Official opening at 3 p.m. Local and Visiting Bowlers invited. A special invitation k extended to the ladies, C CARTER, Hon. Secretary. GOLF. Open Champion of Australia and New Zealand, TO-MORROW, INST

The last opportunity of seeing this "•aster of the ganis before he returns to Australia. '■ IMees for Admission: Men ss, Ladies 2s 6d, for the whole day. For one -round only; Men 3s, Ladies 2s. Tickets may be obtained at the Office of the Secretary (Mr. J. Avatia) Devon Street. THE ROYAL N.Z. SOCIETY FOR THE HEALTH OF WOMEX AND CHILDREN. TO HELP THE MOTHERS AND SAVE THE BABIES. gNTRIES are invited from parents of children under two years who are willing to allow -their children to be nominated in the Plunket Baby Voting Contest. Valuable prizes will be donated. ANN BURGESS, President.

Customs Depart...-..., ~l : Ist. November, 1!)20.° PROPOSED REVISION OF CUSTOMS TARIFF. T is hereby notified for public infortion that it is proposed to inquiries during the recess with a vie\, to revising the Customs Tariff during the session of 11)21. " All persons making contracts for the delivery of imported goods, either subet to duty or which may become subet to duty, should protect themselves either (1) by introducing therein a clause governing possible change of duty, or (2) by «iviii«r immediate notice where contracts are already in force or, where there are running contracts, that! in the event of alteration of the' duty! the provisions of section 130 of the Cutoms Act, 181,1, must apply. It is proposed to amend this section to cover alteration not only in the liability of goods to duty or the duty, but also in the amount of duty. Copies of section 130 referred to" abovt will be supplied on application to thf nearest Collector of Customs. W, B. MONTGOMERY, Comptroller of Custom*,