DISTRICT NEWS.
JOTTINGS FROM PROVINCIAL CENTRES.,-.. . (From Our Special Correspondent!.) NAPIER. 'Dr. Nairn, of Hastings, .left by the mail train on Monday for Wellington, and thence proceeds to England.to offer his services at the front. The foundation-stone of the Hastings Municipal Theatre will bo laid to-mor-row. Eighteen citizens have been nominated for the Napier Borough Council, threo of thqm being Labourites. Two of the retiring councillors, Messrs. T. C. Moore and J. Spence, have not sought re-elec-tion. Mr. Spence has been a member of the council for very many years, anil his retirement is generally regretted. Mr. William Hart (retiring Mayor) and Mr. John Thomas Blake aro contesting the Mayoralty of Hastings. Messrs. A. A. George and Eustace Lane have been nominated for the Hastings seat on the Napier Harbour Board. At a eonference of local bodies held this afternoon it was decided to construct a ferro-concrete bridge over the Tutaekuri River, the estimated cost being £6500. This bridge will connect Napier South with a vast area of swampy land, which the Harbour Board intends to reclaim, and will enable-ex-tension of Kennedy Road, which" it is proposed shall form the direct route to Taradale.
The question of constructing the West Shore embankment was discussed at length at to-day's Napier Harbour Board meeting, when the chairman said no members of the board liad said the Public Works Department's estimate of the cost was absurd, as stated by the Minister in Napier a few days ago. A motion proposing that a contract should be let for the work was held over for _ a month, and the chairman was authorised to hire light sleepers from the Department, or failing that to get ordinary sleepers, tnd make a track for carrying spoil, the suggestion being that this would form, the commencement of the East Coast railway. Preparations are being made to commence the embankment at both ends.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2441, 21 April 1915, Page 5
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313DISTRICT NEWS. Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2441, 21 April 1915, Page 5
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