JOTTINGS FROM WANGANUI.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1043, 4 February 1911, Page 11

JOTTINGS FROM WANGANUI.

ißy Telegraph.—Special CotresnondcEi.l Wanganui, February 3. Out of eleven applications A. 0. Mannington was to-day appointed clerk to the W'angamii County Council and its subsidiary road boards. A local settler has presented the Beautifying Society with a thousand tree ferns for the purpose of planting; in clumps along the river banks near the town. With otlier donations the society has sufficient in hand to ensure a very busy planting season this year, tlm result of which is expected to bo a great addition to the attractiveness of the town, and its surroundings. The Gonvillc-Castleclift' Tramway Board held a special meeting last night, and accepted several tenders for tho supply of material.- Briscoo qnd Co., of Wellington (£6073), were the successful tenderers for tho supply of rails, fishplates, spikes, ctc.; Richardson, Blair and M'Oabe, of Wellington (£1043), for points and crossings; and. J. AY. Wallace and Co., of Wellington, for 14,000 sleepers at ss. od. each. Tho first delivery of rails is to bo mado at the end of April. Meantime the formation of the track will be going on. A sitting of tho North Island Railway Appeal Board was held yesterday before Dr. M'Arthur, S.M. (president), and Mr. C. P.'Ryan, representing the First Division, and Mr. Donald M'Ken- [ zic, the Second Division. Only one case was sec down for hearing, being an appeal by J. M'Donald against his lion-promotion from Grade 1 to Grade 2. The board came to the conclusion that tho appellant should bo transferred to another shop, in which lie will bo given an opportunity of seeing all kinds of first-class work, and that if lie should himself be qualified to do such work within a period of, say, three months he should then be placed in Sub-class 2, Grade 1, so that he will occupy in list D.3 for 191], the position ho would occupy had lie been promoted in 1010. The board pointed out that it was not through "appellant's fault that ho had not attained a full knowledge of first-class work, and desires to express tho opinion that if apprentices have not the opportunity of seeing all classes of work they should be transferred, say, in the last year of their apprenticeship to' ~ some shop which will afford them full facilities, for gaining every knowledge of their occupation* i