JOTTINGS FROM WANGANUI.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 905, 26 August 1910, Page 2

JOTTINGS FROM WANGANUI.

(By Telegraph.-.Special- Correspondent.) Wanganui, August 15. : A .rumour has been lately going 1 th«" rounds that the Railway Department intend; shortly to shift' the railway workshons from Eastown to Marton,.and the report has apparently been strengthened by the Department's withdrawal of its recent offer of a subsidy to the Borough Council in respect of the new water main to Arainoho with a connection across the railway bridge to The local railway authorities state, however, that they know of nothing to justify the existence of the rumour, and that the supposition iu regard to the'withdrawal of. the offer to tho council is unfounded. Mr. Cowles, telegraph engineer, is at' present engaged hero installing a "phantorn circuit' on tho Wanganui-Marton telephono lino, which it is expected will greatly increase the facilities between the . two places.' ] ,\ Complaints have recently been made by travellers regarding the use of objections able language by newspaper sellers on. railway trains, and the Kailway Depart? Mont is bringing two of the fraternity; before the local'. S.M. in'a few days to answer a charge of- that nature. Mr. James Ogilvie, 'late borough foreman at Hawcra, has been appointedwaterworks and sanitary officer to tho Gqnvillo Town Board. ' At a meeting Of the executivo oi tie": Chamber of Commerce this morning it was reported that the Hon. R..'M'Konzio (Minister for Public Works) would bo in Wangnnui on Friday and, Saturday. Tho. executive decided to make arrangements: to take the Minister up the river on Sat-' urduy morning to show him tho much-, discussed "missing link" in tho Kivcr Bank Road (to connect with Kauarapaoa),,'' and point out to Mm the absolute necessity of taking tho necessary land and making the road.