WANGANUI JOTTINGS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1510, 5 August 1912, Page 7

WANGANUI JOTTINGS.

(By Telesraph.-Special Correspondent.) ; Wanganui, August 3; As the Tosult of Dr. Tnil.y Kind's visit ' I? """»' ailll ' a branch of Hie Society fur the Protw:tion of the Health of Women and Clultlreu l\us been fonm-il. : Settlers of the Ahmihii district, whoso , ro.id wfk utterly destroyed in plnee- during I ho Ileuvy rains thret weeks ago, determined tlriat, as red tape was likely to delav tho worit of repairs, they would restore epinmniucatian themselves. Accordingly, a big workiuiir bee turned out on Thiirstinv, and cont.'jiined at work on the. following <<nys, ana it was expectocl that the road .would be sufficiently restored by to-night to enable pil.id traltic to set through. The settlers haw been without a mail for thi-DB weeks, and, in fnct, havo leen practically isolated from tho outer world for tho whole of that time. As a further instance of their self-reliance, it may be mentioned that they also repaired their telephone line, which had broken down : in several places. Tho returns for July show that the revenue an the borough portion had increased considerably over that for the ' corresponding jnonth. last year, beiii" now ,£m, as against .C 761. Tl» total revenue for the mouth, including that from the new Gonville section, was JCIOS3. Tho latter, as was.tho case last month, has paid .expenses. The number of passengers carried during the month was : 151,705, as against U2,!)87 for July last .year. ; Though for some- timo it seemed as 'if thn \Vanganui Clcnmty Council might sull«r disappointmemc in its efforts to induce its subsiduary joiul bonrds to merge •their identity in tl>«-council (thus diminishing the cost of administration and causing- an increase, af efficiency), it now seems only a question of a little'timc beforo all the six road boards in tho county will cease, to exist. ,'At this morning's incetVng of the council', petitions signed by overwhelming majorities of ratepayers in tlw Puma and Man\;am>ahu road districts wore handed in...in favour of the proposal. Needless to say, tho council passed a special order doclaring the dissolution of these districts;, and placing them once more under the county's jurisdiction. It was stated that, ai next meeting, similar petitions wou&d bo received from the Mnngawhero and Knitoke districts.