WANGANUI.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1776, 14 June 1913, Page 3

WANGANUI.

Students in tho carpentry classes at the Technical School will have an opportunity of gaining practical experience, besides rendering useful service to the Education Board. The Board has asked Mr. Crowto get students to affix the seats in the Assembly Hall at the college, the work to bo dono in accordance- with the bylaws. , , . ~ A fire in a basket was tne causo of an alarm of hre being givon on Wednesday evening. A man in tho timber yard near tho gas office noticed a blaze in one of tho rooms. The back door was forced, and then it was discovered that the fire was as stated above, tho on y damago being a broken door and a scorched floor. ... , ~ .. Two hundred extra lifebelts aro available for any steamer that may be,u<ed to convey people oui to H.M.S. Ncw'yeatancl in tho roadstead on Mouday next. _ . Tha Maori community at Pipiriki ; said a recent issue of tho "County Call, has beon stirred lately by tho death of. the twin daughters of Mr. Is.awanaTaun.-ot Ractihi. One of these girls died at a private hospital in Wanganui, and the other, who had been brought homo to Pipiriki, expired there on Saturday morning last. Both were ex-pupils of the Purakina Maori Girls' College. ■ < Mr D Henderson, solo teacher at tho 'SHamvay School, and formerly of Wanganui was taken ill suddenly on Saturday, - and was removed to the Palmerst.in Hospital, whore an operation was successfully performed for appendicitis. Eq is progressing satisfactorily.