PALMERSTON DAY BY DAY.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1503, 27 July 1912, Page 3

PALMERSTON DAY BY DAY.

(From Oar Special Correspondent.) Palmerston, July 26. The monthly meeting of tho College Street School Committee was held last night, Mr. T. R. Hodder in tho chair. Tho headmaster reported that through tho very inclement weather which had prevailed for some weeks the attendance had been below tho average. He.also reported that nearly .£SO had been . subscribed towards purchasing the piece of land alongside the school, to enlarge the playground. Mr. R. M'Nab tendered his resignation as a member of tho committee, ns he would be away in Australia for the next two months. It was decided not to accept tho resignation, but to grant Mr. M'Nab three months' lcavo of absence. ■Tho slips in tho Manawatu Gorge Road have been cleared, and the traffic road is once more open. The new head of the Police Department here (Sub-Inspector Marsack) has'assumed his duty. Ho arrived from Auckland yesMr. M. A. Eliott, president of the Palmerston North Chamber of Commerce, will represent that body on the- deputation to the Minister for Railways is reference to the "speeding up" of the mof)> ing and afternoon trains to and from Wellington. Themotor cycle sports held hero a few weeks since resulted in a profit of >£13, which is to be handed to the Talmerston Brass Band funds.

At a meeting of the Manawntu Philosophical Society last night (Mr. R. G. Gardner presiding), Mr. M. A. Elliott gave an interesting description of a wool exhibit just received from England. At the Police Court to-day, before Mr. A. D. Thomson, S.M., an eleven-year-old girl was convicted of stealing jewellery and cash to the amount of M lls., the property of Mabel Patterson. The girl was ordered to come up for sentence when called upon. The-firo bell sounded an alarm al«ut 5.45 this evening, the cau?e being a motor bicycle ablaze in a cycle shop in the Square. The machine was run outside, and the injury to it was the only damage done.