WANGANUI NOTES.

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2297, 3 November 1914, Page 9

WANGANUI NOTES.

.- The Customs duties collected at the port of Wanganui in October totalled £6071 19s. \7d., as compared with £COO 4 10s.:'3d. for the same month of last year. Excise duty was £165.'55., and that''for' the previous October £170 19s. 9d.

-Vital statistics for "Wanganui in October.—Births, 57 (previous October 62): deaths, 20 (25); marriages, •14 (14). , '. ... Considerable interest is being shown in the biennial election for-the. Wanganui County Council, there being eighteen nominations for ten seats; . of these Mi-. A. D. M'lntosh was returned unopposed for Kauratea Riding. . Messrs..'■ E; E. Fletcher and. E. W:' "\Vliiteman have been, appointed', the' council's representatives on. the Wanganui Hospital Board. . The AVangamii Agricultural Association has decided not to sell the tea kiosk and refreshment stall rights for. the forthcoming show and has instead entrusted their management to a committee of ladies. The whole of the profits are to be devoted to the Queen Mary and Belgian Food Funds. > At the annual meeting of the Alexandra Cavalry Old- Members' Association Mr. H. N. Harrison was elected patron; Captain C. L. Somraerville, president;. Captain E. Morgan, vice-president; andi secretary;' Mr. T. Allison, treasurer,. The association votfcd £10 to the Belgian food fund. , • Local, bodies' liability for expenses, of Maoris at hospitals formed the-sub-ject of - some remarks by the chairman' of the Waitotara; County Council yesterday. In referring to a recent typhoid' epidemic inland and- the efforts of hos-pital-boards' officers, to. combat it he pointed out that Maoris paid no rates' and that • being so he thought a protost should be made against local bod-: ies being,charged, with the cost of combating such epidemics and that such should be borne by the' Health Department. The council endorsed .the chairman's opinion and passed a resolution on the lilies indicated.