WANGANUI JOTTINGS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1484, 5 July 1912, Page 2

WANGANUI JOTTINGS.

IBy Telegraph.—Special Oorresronflent.! Wanganui, July i. The pile-driving diiiictmy in connection with the new JJubJin Street Bridge continues. Advices indicate that mutters will bo satislitctorily adjusted in a day or two. Meanwhile a largo portion of tho contractors' staff has been paid olf, and only thoso engaged in fitting together tlio iron work havo been rotained. An official ot tho Public AVorJss JUcpartincnt's bridgo building staff is now engaged devising fresh means for sinking piles through tho rctractory "country" underlying the river bed, and, as tho Department is doing all in ils power to facilitate matters, it is oxpected that work will bo restarted in a day or two.

Tho noivly compiled statistics of tho Gonville Town District, which wore laid boforo tho Town Board at its monthly meeting last evening, show that tho suburb continues to go ahead. Including exempted properties valued at ,£30,500, tho total valuation is .£352,493, as compared with JCS69.U6 four years ago. This represents an average advance in values of from to A'-100 per aero during tlio period mentioned.

Some (lays ago a local resident wrote to General Godloy, drawing attention to the inconvenience suffered by Territorials residing in the country through having to rido many miles to attend parades in winter, with the addition of having to pay for etabling'as well. The Commandant has 6ont a reply, thanking this sot tier for drawing attention to the matter, and stating that the General hopes, in the near future, to reduce tho number of parades, and extend tho time in eaiup. This, of course, should remove the disability under which Territorials, similarly circumstanced, aro now labouring.