INGLEWOOD.

Taranaki Daily News, 30 November 1921, Page 6

INGLEWOOD.

(Erom Our Own Correspondent.) Nov. 29. The many friends of Mr. Wm. Lightfoot, one of Inglewood’s best known citizens, who has lately been missed from our midst owing to his retirement, through illness, to New Plymouth Hospital, will be pleased to learn that, at last accounts, he was reported to be making good progress towards recovery. Joe Hoppy, too, another well-known Inglewood resident, is also reported to be progressing. Mr. Clement Wragge was welcomed at the Town Hall on Monday night by a failly numerous and very attentive audience, for his lecture on “The Grandeur of Nature.” Mr. J R. Sutherland, the Mayor, introduced the lecturer, wno. without unnecessary preamure, attacked the vast subject that he had chosen for the evening’s addresg. The manner he dealt with his task had the effect on his hearers that, like Oliver Twist, they felt they would like to ask for more. The impression one received was that Mr. Wragge was so crammed full of information on so very many parts of his subject of such widely differing aspects, that he could easily have mad,e separate lectures, each intensely interesting, to extend over a month, without exhausting the patience of his audience or coming to the end of his tether as regards .the information he could impart. In fact, it made one th hue that it must indeed be a treat to hear him all out for a night’s lecture on any one of the numerous avenues of research of which, in effect, he only gave us a glimpse. Bookings for the Convent School matinee concert on Thursday next are well up to expectations, so all that is ■needed to ensure complete success is favorable weather. For the- sake of the children, who will, in eftect, be the chief beneficiaries, it is to be hoped the day will be one of the best.