PALAIERSTON DAY BY DAY.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1313, 16 December 1911, Page 14

PALAIERSTON DAY BY DAY.

4(lly ToJegraiih-Hiiccial Correspondent.) Palmcrston, December I"). At I lie iiifietin;; of I lie t'almerston Hospital Hoard yesterday, .Messrs. C. Voss mill I/. If. liiyniit were appointed a subeiimiiiillee to liave improvements made lo I lie silo of the proposed Old People's llmi'ie, and it was resolved to make a levy hi' fid. nn every .1:1(11)0 on the local authorities Inr llm umiiiU'iiuiiM! of the home, it lieing estimated that this would produce carrying a pound lor pound subsidy. A donation of J;:! :'s. was received from the Rev. 11. 0. Reseller, to bo devoted, for preference, to tho proposed children's ward at the hospital. It was agreed to allow tho board's inspector to visit Koxton periodically, tho enst In lie defrayed by the Foxton Borough Council. Tho secretary was inslmuled lo take proceedings lor tho recovery of fees owing by patients for over thitii'years. Nurse Dennett was promoted lo the position of sistor, Probationer Cool, to I lie position of nurse, nnd the name of Miss Laura Perry was added to Ihe list of probationer*!. The College School Committee held Its monthly meeting last night, Mr. T. li. Ilodder being in the chair. Inspector liraik wrote requesting that a list of the pupils who had received proficiency and competency certificates should be sent 10 the director of the Technical School, lie also slated that a fifty-page cookery lioolc would tie sent to each girl who had received a proficiency ccrlificate. It was derided lo coinbino with tho Tcrraco End School Commit lea in holding a picnic nl'lcr I lid Christmas holidays. Messrs. Ilodder. Carville, and Low were appointed to represent the coinmittco at the conference on the. question of establishing swimming baths at tho Campbell Street .School. At two o'clock this morning Sergeant Wills and Constable Finlayson made a raid on a Chinese house in Main Street, in closo proximity to the Courthouse, suspecting that opium-smoking was going 011 there. Five Chinese were found in bunks with apparent traces of opiumsmoking. The officers of the law then made a search for the drug, anil finally discovered several tins of opium in a mattrass on which one of the men was lying. This was seized, and a Chinese named William Tie was arrested. ITe was brought up at the Police Court this morning, and remanded till Monday, bail being allowed-in X4O. At tho adjourned annual meeting of the Bunnythorpe Dairy Company yesterday afternoon a report was read from the Agricultural Department, stating that there was no known means of doing away with tho flavour imparted to milk through feeding cows on rapo. After discussing the matter tho directors decided to notify suppliers that their milk would be liable to bo refused if they continued to feed their oows on rape. At the breaking-up of the College Street School to-day presentations weremade to Mr. W. Lyons and Mr. T. D. O. M'Kenzie, teachers at tho school. Tho latter is leaving to take up a higher position at another school.