DISTRICT NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1978, 7 February 1914, Page 14

DISTRICT NEWS.

wnnres FKOM PROVINCIAL CENTRES. - (?.rcia Out Sjjeclflt Correesofl-dants.) PALMERSfON. The Radium Institute Fund, including Mrs. Coonibs'a £60, now amounts to £10f>. The employees of the gas works and Borough Council hold their annual pionie at Plijnmerton yesterday, travelling by ' special train. Tlio proposed tramway system, which is arousing great interest, was being discussed at a, special meeting last night called by. tiro Progressive' League. The speakers are not all advocates of the' Bdisftn storage battery system, which . the council adopted, but all are apparently resolved to combine to ensure that whatever their differences one of the various systems advocated shall this time be carried at the polk NAPIER. At to-day's meeting of the Hawke's i Bay Rivers Board, the Hoii. J. D. Ormoftd was re-elected chairman for the ensuing year. In thanking members, ho said if he found later on that the board was not working in the direction he thought essential for the district he would ask them to appoint another chairman. Mr. L. Lamberg, of Wellington* is staying in Napier. Mr. E. Johnson, of Wellington, who has been supervising the erection of the pile-driving plant for the Harbour Board, left. Napier yesterday morning on his return to the capital city. Mr. J. W. M'DougaUj of Napier, left yesterday morning for Auckland. Messrs. T. G. ffiddop and A. Duncan, of the Railway Departiueut, left Hastings yesterday morning, for Wellington. The County' Council has received a telegram from the Minister of Public Works expressing his willingness to receive a deputation at Wellington regarding the proposed West Shore bridge and embankment on Friday 'next at 10,80 a.m. Mrs.' Bateman, of Clivc, who is leaving on d. trip to the Old Country, was entertained at a farewell social last evening. OTAKI. Tli© monthly meeting of the Otaki Town Board was held on' Thursday afternoon, The roadman's report showed that good work had been done in, and adjacent to, the town. He, however, made complaint of overhanging trees and excessive speed of motorists. It was : decided to give notice to property owners to trim their trees' and to draw the . constablo's attention to excessive motor travelling. .The District Health Officer wrote, in reply to the board, that the local Dairy Company had been written to relative to drainage of refuse, and had pointed out a way whereby the nuisance could/be alleviated, The Health ■ Officer is to bo asked to visit the locality, and to meet representatives of the board. It wa-s also resolved that, attention bo drawn to insanitary buildings, which the board considered should be condemned. The Postal Department, wrote stating that the board's request 1 for tho removal of two telegraph posts would be gheh attention. Tho nope' was expressed that tiro obstacles would soon be removed. It. was also resolved to ask owners ef encroaching fences to remove them on to the proper road line within 30 days. A request from station residents for the widening of a road was left in aheyance,_ On the recommendation of tha chairman it was decided to clean the Hahgapouri Creek and charge the cost to ratepayers interested. It was also agreed to wako application to drain from Mill Road, through Hospital property, r intO the oreek, It was decided to draw tho Health Department's attention to old buildings in' the centre of tho town which are in a. state of deeay and a menace to public property; also to make arrangements for a poll for high pressure, lighting, and drainage schemes, the matter being left to the chairman and Commissioner Brown Attention was drawn to the fact of the nnsuitabi.lity of the running of trains, and it was unanimously decided to approach the manager of railways with a view of having an early morning trains run from Otaki. instead of pa'ckaksriki, and to ask that the train leaving Wellington at 6.25 p.m. bo run as far as Otaki. It was pointed out that the above alteration was. the wish of practically the whole of the ratepayers of the Horowhenua County. The Te Horo school children held their picnic yesterday at Paekakariki. Mr. J. Truman's racer Courtley is more severely injured than, at first supposed, and in consequence ft-veterinary, surgeon has had to be called in, Parowanui and Peggy, local racehorses, were font to (iisborno yesterday morning to compete in the meeting to be held there. • TAIHAPE, ' Mr. T. M. Lonsdale, manager of the Moumahaki Experimental Farm, was a visitor jjo Taihape on Thursday. The residence of Mr. E. lleid was entered on Wednesday afternoon during the absence of the family. On returning 'homo lato in the afternoon Mrs. lteid found that the house had been completely ransacked, the contents of every . room having been turned topsy turvyi The sum of £9 in gold, in addition to a quantity of jewellery, was taken. The police have the matter in hand, but there is as yet no clue to tho perpetrator. . A man named J, Davidson, was ad' mitted to the Hospital on Wednesday, as the result of an accident at Ranga* taua. He was employed at Messrs. Bennett and Punch* s mill its yardman, and a stack of timber collapsed without warning, Davidson sustaining a broken leg. A number of defaulting Territorials were fined'sums varying from 7s. costs to £2 and costs at the Magistrate's Court on Wednesday. Two youths, named respectively John Doole and Norman Christensen, were each fined £1, and costs 195., by Mr. Haselden, S.M., on Wednesday, for shooting out of season. Mr. N. A. Foden has commencedduty as third assistant teacher at the Taihape High School, Other additions to the staff aro Miss Broughton (fifth assistant) and Miss C. Donovan (probationer). At a meeting of the committee of the Rangßikoi A. and P. Association at Taihape on Wednesday, the question of the scarcity of sheep truoks was discussed, and it was resolved io place the matter before the authorities. Owing to an epidemic of whoopingcough, tho attendance at the Taihape School is at present about 60 below the average. At cricket en Ih-ureday tho Taihape team'was defeated by United, Taihape scored 67 (Dashwapd 29, Lallory 13), and United had lost six wickets for 76 runs when time was called, Monaghan (not out) 20, Ongtey 14, D.uggan 12, Mitchell 11, being tho best batsmen,