PALMERSTON NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 465, 25 March 1909, Page 6

PALMERSTON NEWS.

Oeom OTO SPECIAL COKKESr-ONDENT.) There is every probability that the drivers' dispute, which is set down for hearing at the Arbitration Court on Friday will be settled betoro the Court meets. The union is applying for an award to take the place of tho one which expired a few months back. Tho old award was £2 2s. for drivers of single-horse vehicles, and £2 6s. for drivers of two horses. Tho men now ask £2 10s. and £2 145., bm ar e prepared to meet tho employers with a reduction en their demands. It is understood that tho employers will meet today to consider tho matter.

, Tho half-ton bbeeso, which is to bo sent to tho Palmerston Dairy Show bv the Ngairc Dairy Factory, has been manufactured. Coins valued at £15 have boon placed in tho mammoth choose, and purchasers of slices will stand a chance of getting anything from a threepenny bit to half-a-sovereign. A mooting of tho committeo of tho Horticultural Society was held on Tuesday afternoon, when preparations for the chrysanthemum show were- advanced another stage. It was discovered that tho dates chosen (last Wednesday and Thursday in April) clashed with tho Manawatu races, and tho committeo therefore decided to hold the show two days later. _ It has boon pointed out, however, that this will moan a great inconvenionco to exhibitors, who would have to stay over Sunday in order to remove their exhibits, and, in all probability, tho show will b 0 held in the first week in May. Encouraging reports havo been received as to tho prospects of tho show, and numbers of outside exhibitors are expected to outer, while- tho'.local horticulturists aro busy coaxing their blooms.

While riding a horso bare-back on Tuesday Mr. W. Mitchell, of Kaumai, was thrown and broke bis leg. Ho was brought to tho hospital, and is making satisfactory progress.