MANAWATU NOTES

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 113, 6 February 1919, Page 8

MANAWATU NOTES

Official intimation has been given that the Martin Memorial Fund has now been closed, the accounts duly 'audited, and the balance of money in hand paid to the credit of the Palmerston North Hospital Board. The total amour.t received from donations was i:2O4S lis. 8d„ and the greater portion of this having been piacod on deposit earning interest, the subscriptions benefited to the extent of .£lO4 18s. 6d. Thin the total receipts to this fund were J2158 10s. 2d. The disbursements for ineidcnlol expenses amounted to' .£sl 19s. 4d„ leuvirifr a net balance of .82101 10s. lOd. to be devoted to the purpose for which the fund was raised, and the balance in hand baa now been paid to the Hospital Board as the work of erecting the Martin Memorial building is in progress, and when completed it is to be used as an X-ray and bacteriological department. There.is not the least doubt Hint shags are playing great havoc with young trout in the Manawatu River. It was reported at a meeting of the Acclimatisation Society thflt no fewer than sixty slings were seen in one day close lo Palmerston.

Mr. Joseph Cable, who was recently appointed Government Inspector of Machinery, etc., lias arrived in Palmerston North to take up his duties in the local office as successor to' the late Mr. Pyke. Mr. Cable was for twenty-two years in the service of the Union Steam Ship Company as engineer at. sea, latterly holding the position of chief engineer of Iliu Arahura. Mnnowni, and l'aluniia engaged in the San Francisco trade. Ho was also for some yea is president of the Institute of Marine Engineers. ,

A resolution has been adopted by the Palmerston North Chamber of Com-; merce that further representation bo made to the Government with regard to reinstating the late train between Palmerston and Pahiaiua, to the end that passengers shall be able to come to Palmerston and return the same day.

At a meeting of the Palmerston North Council it was resolved on the recommendation of the Abattoirs Committee,' to instruct Messrs. L. G. .Limes and Co. (o prepare plans for additions to Hie abattoir?, the erection of a coolingrooni. and alterations to the diyos'er o/i the condition that the pig companies entered into u guarantee to do all their killinp; there. The Mayor slalxd thai the total cost *onld be about ,£4OOO, and the money would have to come out of revenue, but the abattoir's account was all rijflit, and could utnnd it. The local Citizens' Epidemic Committee has written to the Palmcrslnn North lloroiiffh Council that in their opinion it would be a breach of confidence if they disclosed the situation of the houscV found by them to be in on insanitory condition inside during (ho epidemic. Seven permits were' issued hi Pnlnierstoii North last month for (he erection of new building valued at illl.titll.