JOTTINGS FROM WANGANUI.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 952, 20 October 1910, Page 3

JOTTINGS FROM WANGANUI.

. BAND DOINGS AT BAELARAT. ; (By ' ..Correspondent.) ■' Wanganui, October 19; .The Wahganui Hospital; ; Board- aecided to-day not to be.represented ,at the .Con-,' sumption Conference, which isbeing or-, .ganised by the Christchurch Board.

i • The Wanganui, Hospital is just outside \ the.borough boundary; and is, consequent-, ;ly,: charged suburban rates for its. gas .supply;' which means 2&7 per. thousand 'feet more than if it w'ere.'in the/borough.. Some time ago the Hospital Board/wrote to the Wanganur Borough Council pointing . out'' that. the extra : charge meant, a considerable annual, sum,;;and;' as.'-the in- ; sti tution was' ; one J used :m.ore :by > town people'■ than anyone- else, the board.'iasked that ' the ' supply of gas be charged at . town rates, only. To-day; ;,a, letter from the council was read at the 1 board's meeting agreeing to the'request, conditionally on the" : whole of ,thei 'hospital- being lit:with gas.' . As' the : has "a. valuable electric, lighting plant ' at the 1 hospital serving certain purposes more conveniently than gas "(which,' however, 1 has its' own value-in other directions) the, board, could not see its'; way -to - a^ee: to the council's terms, and resolved ;.to-' renew .its application. -m''-.--;'-"-''-'"-''-

. . .Private cables'. have been/! received stat:irig that'-the-: Wanganui. Garrison Band are. doing well in; the.'Ball'arat competitions; :At the time of wiring they had won two -firsts, one second; and one third in the solos, and a second: and fourth in the quartet. . . ./ •