PALMERSTON DAY BY DAY.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 577, 4 August 1909, Page 4

PALMERSTON DAY BY DAY.

THE SWOLLEN RIVERS. TRAIN TRAFFIC RESTORED. £ (liy Tclcsruvli.-Spocial Correspondent.) . , \ 1 Palmorston, August 3. No further, news lias been received of Mr. f Woodard, who is missing from Aslihurst. Tho Palmorston North Savage Club is to j pay a fratfcmal visit to the Wellington Sav- f ago Club oil Saturday week. 1 The Plunket Nurso Society's'report for s tho past month'states that letters have bqon- > received l'rom Wanganui, Marton, Shannon, etc., and visits received from parents resid- , ing in Shannon, Ekotahuna, and Feilding, , thus showing the widespread interest in tho work of tho society. During tho month over 100 visits have been paid. Djv Findlay opens Foxtou Post. Omco on Friday next, During tho day ho will bo waited upon by several deputations, 'lhcso will introduM the following matters: (1) Erection of a verandah at the railway station; (2) lighting tho station and wharf with gas ; (3) alteration of local time-table to cnablo passengers to cateli tho aftornoon Pal-merston-Wellington train. A Longburn. de-; piitation, consisting of Messrs. G. Ys ilson, R. B. M'Kcriide, B. 11. Gardener, l'. Purnell, and others willT urgo,. tho. construction of tho Levin-Marton link of the Main Trunk line, and;.another deputation will urgo .the necessity ."for 'cheaper telephonic communication: between Foxton and 'Wellington. _ _ All danger from floods is now practically over,, but it is too soon yet to estimate tho damage 'done. . Yesterday afternoon 1 tho'Mayor and councillors inspected tho Manawatu River. So far as could.be seen, tho groynes and protective' works put in iilong the borough boundary were. standing well, and tho groynoa were doing good work. Tho erosion at Snow|s property has continued, while, at tho icntranco .to tho .old racecourse—a considerable distanco below tho . groynes—the river has made still greater inroads, <ind_ it looks as if all tho willows below that point will be carried away. The river is subsiding, tat very slowly, and, .until it is well down again, it will bo impossiblo to. ascertain what damage has been caused. _ - Last night various slips in the , Manawatu . Gorgo were sufficiently cleared to enable passengers to be transhipped,, arid , a train/got through at a late hour this, morning. Ihe 'lino is,now quite clear, and. trains aro running as usual.: : . : , ~ • , Owing to the backing up of water through soriiig tides, a scour lias taken place on tho Foxton lino between Tiakitahuna and Oroua Bridge, where the river is overflowing,, mak-ing-it impossible for-.trains to .get through. The extent of : the damage not yet ascT- , tamable; ■ but it is iiot that traffic will' bo rpsumed between Palmerstori. aud, - Toxtoii till to-morrow.