WANGANUI JOTTINGS.
.'. . —-■■ ■-» -. .■.■'■■' ■ ■■'.. .■■ (B7 Tdejrapli.—Special Correspondent.) Wanganui, December 2. ' Customs duties collected in the port of Wanganui last month amounted to .£7140 4s. lid., of which preferential tarifl contributed .£232 16s. 7d. The total for the same month' last year.was £921 more, and preferential tariff was-.£47 more. •' The vital statistics for November axe:-« Births, 54 (58 previous November); deaths, 20 (16); marriages, 22 (16). For the eleven months of this year which have already elapsed, the birthe and marriages.aro well ahead of the total for the corresponding period last year. ' . ' _ , The complete figures for the Orphan, age street collection on Saturday show that the public contributed £238 os. sd. to tho institution. The rainfall in November was 4.58 m., as compared with 5.07 in. in November last year. Rain fell on seventeen days. Practical field work, in connection with the Wanganui Education Board's agncuU tural classes starts to-morrow, when ,a number of boys from Feilding, Marton, Taihape, and Wanganui go into camp at Mr. E. Shorfs farm at Cheltenham.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1613, 3 December 1912, Page 6
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168WANGANUI JOTTINGS. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1613, 3 December 1912, Page 6
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