PALMERSTON DAY BY DAY.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 960, 29 October 1910, Page 10

PALMERSTON DAY BY DAY.

SHOW STOCK ON RAILWAYS. ' (From Our Special CorresDonilcnU Palmorston, October 28. The Terrace End Bowling Green ii ig|; to be officially opened oil November 9, : A tenuis, clul) is being, formed in con- , .1 nection with tho bowling club, tho courts. .. being in excellent order just now. . M The usual meeting of Jlaliawatu Lodge of Oddfellows was held last. !:■;? night, Bro. Pottell, N.G., presiding. - Ono new candidate for membership was proposed. _ The quarterly euchro tour- ' x- 1 ' nament'will be commenced at an early date. , Numerous complaints as to the steal- S mg of flowers, from.graves at the cemo tery at Terrace Ella liavo been made lately. ' ( ' ' A lecture on his recent trip to Brit- " am and the Continent was delivered before the Manawatu Officers' Club at. the , Mounted Rifles' Orderly Room last night by Mr. R. M'Nab, who touched i.'S more particularly on tho question of: universal, training as affecting tho Old ?-• Country. Tho lecturer: quoted opinions on.tho.matter by prominent.officers.at t ■ Home, and he also dealt with the Alder- ■ phot, Hythe, .and other -military- man-oeuvres.-.v. ■, .'. . . ■ -. - ■ -As the result of a. visit to Welling- ', 3 ,p U , til© director of the Palmerston inimical School (Air. /F. D. Opie) tenuis .will bo,called immediately - for the i s - | u ßly - of . uniforms for-"' the Technical.' te, oCntol cadets. The corps is 1 particularlyanxuus to have-the uniforms in time ■■ to ameai-. in them. at the, military :& tourn.jnent here on January 2 and 3, 2 ...i'P authorities have promised to ■ ' sible > desire as much.'as/pos-.: ; f of St. Peter's Anglican ; Uiuren luve set up a' committeo 'to ar-. range for clco parties "during the sum- ' • • mor montls. • . ;. °-■ Tlio,; Rolgotea . Cooperative' Dairy Uinpny his accepted tho tender, of "^Cambridge,..for' the erec : ' "i: '3 i ; °l Vfactory, m brick, the price being JSSSO:'" ' , ■ 'that' the engmeering in comiection with . ;.v I'nil SchW will be fully work, at .tho com*: year ° N firSt — uext i ak f on '-»f ; .the ' .lingbum' ' i- 1 h i as , .'her . position in • to ' talte missibhary wofk '.'f' % T" 'j^rday.' jpresent ,'■•'. . : i:; ed.Tiithia lady's hunt™ u-atrli mrl » rataabk marks of appreciation by tne peopv 0 f "S rho presentations were rado by Mr. G. H: BenUett, a member <jfUie Waneanui ' ! - Education Board, ; who rcli-rcd to Miss Rorvfo SOn f S +i fou !' tee ' a A s' ears 'Vork in the ' service of tlio board. •y • ' Bitter"/'complaints of 7 tho trcatmpnt metecL out to ..exhibitors of Wk from . the Palmerston district at \| lo {v.,;; . . rarapa Show arc made agant,. t'i,« Railway s . Department." ;Notil 1 ' J , V U '; : given, by:the Department to .tk sf . ; hibitors that . they miist retruc\-+hnii* :; sto'ck at 10 o'clock ;on Fridaj\iirtU+ -■ m order to' be . ready for" tho/fUml tram at 6 o'clock the next morons Sheep and ',pigs were .trucked. iinAfii; atel tho. show, closed at. 4 o'clock. So J8 ', ' of tho exhibitors; were : kept'.' at-' woij.. ' pretty . well all., night, but .everytliiiv 1 was -in roaditjess for tho special . M • • leave', at the. ho.iir: fixed, which;,itVdid.\ 7 ' Palmerston., and, other exhibitors ; north\ '■ of- here .naturally' expected-that;-!.i:th6 /V,.-; !. ■ trani would . conio .'right' through, "so- \ ' that they, would cQiin'eot with the- north \ and south; trains: leaving Palmerston at \ 1 midday, but they had only.; tho inorti- \' : fication of seeing.-the,trucks containing -,\ | ; their valuable show l stock shunted l Off''at ; ::' ■' ' -Woodville,'; when tliey .wero compelled ' , 'to ; wait several hours, and eventually;'- -' : • arrived-in Palmerston- just ;before, one \- 1 olploclß- .oigljSj-tiiiaflMi tllit. : those -wlio I ■ hadrfo.go;;north/;and' r Son.th;had to'pui I in another:- lyeary' wait-at this , statioiu.- - '-. 1 This meaiit that, some of the stock - ' 'were in t-h'e .trucks over,.four and twciity .<' -/' • . hours withiut .the'possibility <>f giving i them needed attention in the way or ■ .feed and water. The.particularly annoy- ■ ■ rag part of the, business/Wa-s..that.all this could have /been , avoided by thei smallest application 'of trains on, tho ./ ; . > part of tho Departnieht by speeding "Up . '■ the special train just a little and allow- ii irig it to 'conuect ; With the ■> ,i- ---; trains leaving Palmerston.ab'oiit midday;, • Numbers of ■ tbc stock ,/were intendedi ! for tho • Palmerston Show, but, .' owing to the "doing", which they have ■ received in the journoy from Carterton-, '. it is very, doubtful .if they w;ill bo in ■ i fit condition,, -and v two' exhibitors of- .'- ! sheep liavo announcecl that tlie.y ' will ;' hot;pe able"to.-show at Palmerston.. As ■■■■.■ i an example,''it'may bo; mentioned 1 that. ! s ah exhibitor from the - Palmerston . dis- - . j trict.erigaged.a/truck'for a'dairy cow-. 1 td trav<3. by^'her-setf, so as not to on- , tail any risk of her being ■ hurt 1 _bv: being . - put in a.'-truck with other stock.- On - the return journey ' the; oWher/_olferedi '/■ k to let this'particular'animargO''in with , his other stock, there being plenty oi i room, only specifying that, ho il should : be-allovvcd the usual rebate. Ho was .. 1 r informed that- if . ho; wanted the: rebate, . the cow would;have'to,.'go-batk i : came—in-a-truck .by herself;: and/thus.' l the Department had 'to haul a truck with one cow in it all tho way/irom r Carterton to Palmerston because* an. 1 official refused to. accept'an excollont 1 offer from tho owner.