WANGANUI NORMAL.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1897, 4 November 1913, Page 9

WANGANUI NORMAL.

| (By TelcEParli.—Spcoial Correspondent.) • . ■ Wanganui, Novonilwr 3. j.l. 15 proceeding steadily on tho Wanganui wharves. Several steamers wero discharging to-day, in addition to tho_ Ngatoro at Castlecliff, where she discharged the wholo of her coal cargo. The wharfinger (Mr. Hall) speaks highly of tile conduct of ■ tho local watersiders. Ho reports, howover, that the Potono'a mooring lines were cut half way through tho other night, • and tho watersiders' waitingroom was locked up after the gas had been turned full on, though tho latter might havo been an accident. These 'have been thd only unpleasant incidents, and the majority of tho men were, ho believed, not only anxious to do tho right thing, but had never worked better. Their conduct had been wholly commendable, and tlsey had shown no disposition to listen to the two or three agitators who wore trying to mako troublo.

A . section of the Harbour Board permanent men who havo been doing patrol duty havo been formed into _a cycle corps. Tho squad numbers six moil, and they aro stationed at tho Tolls Office at tho head of tho Quoon's Wharf. Tho men aro in chargo of tho wharfinger, Mid ar« always ;ro»\dy for iuatiuit dutj.