PALMERSTON DAY BY DAY.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 703, 31 December 1909, Page 6

PALMERSTON DAY BY DAY.

~ \ ' Wjkif&(B3r;?jTcie£raj4,-rSpecial.; Correspondent.) s ■ ! ,l -i Palmerston, December 30 d--.'- ■ Tie staff- at ■ the'Palmerston Post "iind i/'-,Telegraph I Office has, of course, had a ? Teiyvbusy time during Christmas week, fs'ssana j'.tHe? concentration.'r.of * the'-Mallvaj" yjjt traffic at Palmerston, where the mails are now sorted, has greatlj in f--creased!-the work.. The/ ordinary daily ,-meirnmber.\iof\telegram6vhandled:]S' between. i-K..-three. four hundred, but■;■ on! Friday' last ty number recened and dispatched ■was 10 fewer than 14ofl -In the Postal the.,mccease was on: an-eqtial 1 ; and itho.: staff , in; both departments Here kept gojng straight on for about twenty'hours The early morning staff ~'bcgaii; "work-at 4 o'clock .on Friday morn- » Jpg, and they were not fini hed till two t o'clock nest monung The , employees, »?ArAnwovor," irecognised :i the. emergency,; .andmet the extra call on their - , On the Palmerston Bowling Green yes«>4>brdaT;£aftenu)o!W'>' a»game in ■>. the '.'second' 1 round of the pairs tournament it as 'as!v; playedji-when-jlnnes; and.-.Tasker: (scratch)* fte-fM,-beat,Dixod. and Haydon (handicap 4), ■>"£ ?The .Hanawatu Bowling Centre 'las , arranged a pairs tournament for New , Sear's I)ay v 1" Mr V Brogan has resigned the posiUon iQf::delegßte!.for,?tho. Palmerston Bowl-" «s?(!UlgtClubvon:th.s;,council of ..the 'Northern Association, and Mr Tleming appointed?;. in'. I ';his : dead. ■« i. »it , , ~r .. George .;3lV<irtb,-.:.who o has-.been', on - £,!»■{,,iho f ,postal-,stafi?. atthe ./Palmerstpn; offica "if (f<>r the past nineteen years, but \yho as. appointed postmaster >at>'Dale-', .-.f.ileid left, for: his now-.'home to-day Ycst t /Vf T JWard, Chief Postmaster, on be- - 1„ "-half of the staff, with a smoker's outfit , Complaints Jond .and doep ■ arc heard' as the inadequacy,and rnconvemence of:: the' 1 tj-ain arrangements dunng the Christ t mas holidays. ' ■ To. make '.matters worse, ££«■ ttKg: rolling, stock < has tproved' quite i in-', 'y-^lftlfrcient-,m many--c2.ses,to * accommodate iSjßa passengers,- large • numbers., of; whom ■-have' Adt.to.-.stand l ;throughout 'long .journeys. • nortt-wesferly:, .at .iiresent raging over'the Manawata la jjjJniorstcn, although all the WaW-caits itre kept going, the dust has become a ... ?iwry.. pronounced•;nuisance;: There is. now. p;s.::*wery,v appearance jof-janeimpondingdown-j Ull t of s rain, wluch it it, /expected will beipit as soon as tha wnd lulls very large-- ntuliber of -Palmerston ®txpeoplevhaveibe<sn l 'spending!'.the>Christmas ,-t ihojillays 'on the Foxton beach,. and the a;/A;«reather.'!for i;thef outingrhasvbeen" beauti/It is' expected, nowever, that the 1 J rough turnf which tho weather has now s- • - taken'will send them l back.to town.