JOTTINGS FROM WANGANUI.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1124, 11 May 1911, Page 2

JOTTINGS FROM WANGANUI.

FOOTBALL "OFF" FOR DRILL. IBy Tcleerayh.-SDCcinl Corressocdext.) Wanganui, May 10. As General Godley inspects the local territorials on .Saturday afternoon next nt Wanganui, the Rugby Union has cancelled all junior fixture;, to ensure a Rood mutter. . In endorsing a motion passed by a meeting of> householders to tho effect that 110 attendance at continuation technical classes should bo made compulsory between the ages of U and 17, tho Wangamii technical School Committee recommends that ample and liberal provision he made in tho regulations for exemptions so that there, will bo full latitude to deal with those exceptional cases that may bo expected to arise from time to time.

Councillor E. N. Liffifon has been an. pointed. Deputy-Mayor-of Wanganui -during tho present council's term of office.

lo avoid the cost of a Royal Commission the 'ttaiiganiii Council has asked the Wanpanui East Council to confer regarding tho lattor's quota to the cost of river bank protection at Taylorville. The work will probably bo undertaken by tho Harbour Board on behalf of the Wiingamii Council, and it is hoped that an early start will bo made. It is also hoped that a start will soon be made with the preliminary operations in connection with the new traffic bridge. The conditions of fender arc now being drawn up, and tho necessary Parliamentary Bill is being drafted.