DAILY NOTES FROM WANGANUI.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 592, 21 August 1909, Page 10

DAILY NOTES FROM WANGANUI.

: '' : ';"'' ■- - L <:C ";■'■•:■?■ . ' .-'-' ■' ■''■■ ] - r^'li y :: S;SOaiE-€BOWING INDUSTRIES, h*■ ;•',': (By : Telceraph-Spccial Correspondent.) .!■ ; . \ Wanganul,'August 20.' ■: ■'■ At a meeting held'hero last evening it wasdecided!to form ait amateur boxing'lassocia--•tib'ii:'■ :'meeting' is to bei held viiext week for the election of officers, adoption "of: rules,:etC.- "'' ■'.;.' ■;.•:■■-: ■";■■■'■'. •' .■';,■•■'•. ■■■■■:?' ' ii'l'he'first day of, tho bazaar in aid of the fund- for l providing .'a' swimming- bath at the High. School ..was .very ; 'i£loß in cash-being takcii, .'and something like:another: '.£3o;woHli of tickets .and coupons .beingsold. ' Sbnie tinie ago the Borough Council , decided to, close Gilmour Street: and parr of Gaytori Strect'extcnsionj in order that tho land might be utilised -for industrial , purposes. Part-of this land is reqnired for the extension of the' municipal gasworks; whose business is expanding at a very rapid rate, It is.proposed ■to lease the rest" of the land to the -Lockingbar I'ipe. Company,: which j s removing , '-its plant.from Auckland in'order to amalgamate' with the' Spiral Pipe Company of Wanganui.. Torday Mr. Kerr, S.M., sat to hear objections to .the proposed action of the council. .'Two property i owners in 'the neighbourhood appeared, and protested very,vigorously against the closing of the , streets in question. ,'Mr.. ,Korr;said that "he considered that the-coun-,6il|s- proposal and; tho industrial .progress which' would follow'were , in' the best' interests' of th'e.'xown, and corifirmedjthe action-taken, as- ; :well.',as v'tho motion 'favpurable '. thereto, ■which was , carriod at the'statutory meeting of electors.-.*'.■''■-•' -- : '•''. ■>■-.-■ ■;•:•'- '■ '[?'■'■■: • • ',' ihe;.!'-Herald"'.staff,' With-the ex-' ceptipn of commercial •members, moved; into iiow.-prpmises, in. Victoria Avenue. , The "new. building, which.is very commodious and wellappointed,:! s. to bo: supplemented by another, , which,is to be. built on, tho street frontage. This building will be; completed in about,, a couple.of months; after which time'the whole of.thestaffwill be located in"'.tho:now, quarters'. 'V> '. '.'.■■.;, ,; '.''.:v"/-' : '.' :: '.>■