LOCAL AND GENERAL

Thames Star, Volume LII, Issue 13931, 9 July 1919, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

It takes 120 ."tome of coal per day to keep Wellington supplied with gas. Tlie usual moinitihly. m&atiing of tlhe Coaunity CounciLl, poisitiponed from -last week, was held to-dtiy A full retport will appear an to-mioatroiw's issue. The military -and naval pageant to 'be heldl in London as part of the official p'sace. celiebraitdons on ; July 19th, .will include Dominion contingents and Allied soldiers. ! Gwdlliam amid Coj., auctioneer-", I halving received' i'natir'ucitioinisi frami Mr |F. E. Jloughton, -will sell at 11.30 ' a.mj. (Soi-mjoiTow the whole of his household fumiitiuria and effects.' The third dance to obtain] funds for the soldi ens' resit) moans will be held in St. George's Hall om Friday, ! July 18- This dance has been airrangcd to fit m with, ithe: Peace Celabratiioins, amd ai record atiteindlaaice is aissured. No effomb ia being spared to make the I fuftucitiiotn an, oiutsraindimig! siuocees. The cioirrimi'ifitiee, are Mesdames Flower, Murray, Misses L. Adam®, O. Baker, B. Smith, Murray, Menzies (2), Mo Quiade, Mesisirtg' Downey and -Mayo. Mr J. B. Rockliff, J.P., a very old reisidenit of CoOTißand^el, died ait, his •residence, Ctommiaindeil,, reaemdy. In 1868, says the Coroaniandel News, the goldfieldis of Auckland province becaimie ai sitironig attractions and Mr RockKff accepted a position in-charge of tifoe Tapu. Crushmig: Cbmrany'!?. works, alt Tapiu, and five yea,rs later he ciame to Ooirtxmiajn.del to miamago tlie New Zealand Cnishiing 1 Camipiany"s I battery at'Priiyiing; Crjeek...