PALMERSTON BAY BY DAY.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1405, 3 April 1912, Page 5

PALMERSTON BAY BY DAY.

(By TeldEranh.-Bpeeial Correspondent.) Palmerston North, April z. There was a. very largo attendance, i.„ tho Opera. House last'night, when Mr. J. Nash, a candidate for the Mayoralty, addressed the elector* on municipal matters. Tho candidate dealt lully with tho affairs of the borough, and at its conclusion a voto of thanks and confidence was passed. Tlio Campbell Street. School Committee met last night, tho Rev. T. T. Thomas in the chair. The headmaster, Mr. F. E. Watson, reported that the roll number was 72!1, with mi average attendance of 062. The Wangnnui Education Doard wrote that it had complied with the provisions of the Act in the appointment of an assistant teacher, and could not see its way to alter the decision. The committee resolved that it could not acquiesce in the hoard's interpretation of the Act. The District Nurse Committee, met last evening, the Mayor presiding. Nurse I.onergan repunwl that, (luring the past month sixty visits had been paid to patients. One death had occurred, and five new cases had been taken up. Miss F. George intimated that .'die would organise a concert in aid of tho funds during the winter months.

Councillor Haydon, an old resident and ex-Mayor of Palmerston, is to bo tendered a farewell social on Thursday evening next, prior to his departure on a trip to the Old Country.

A piic-Jci,'!fMl man .named William llii; was charged at the Police Court to-dav, before' J.lr. A. ]).' Thomson, S.M., wit'h having accosted a couple of school girls, and mado imprope- suggestions to them. In sentencing the accused to two months' imprisonment .with hard labcur in the Wellington Gaol, his Worship raid that but for the fact (hat ho did nut wish to bring the children into Court, the accused would have been dealt with more severely still.

Hans Sarsonsen, for indecency, was lined £», in default U days' imprisonment.

Owing to Manawatu not Icing able to get a ream together, the re-pro-onhitive enckot match to have been played hero against a Wellington team lias been abandoned.