MANAWATU NOTES

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 288, 31 August 1921, Page 3

MANAWATU NOTES

From Our Own Correspondent. Palmerston North, August. SO. Owing to tho collapse of a bridge on the Foxton Road; near Rongotea, through traffic between Palmerston North and Foxton is suspended until repairs have been effected. In spite oi the low price* which har been ruling for pigs in tho paid, the •light rise experienced lately has been more than reflected in the retail prices of bacon and hems. Early in August the grocers in Palmerston North were notified by the bacon factories that a rise had taken place all round of a penny per lb. Now comes an intimation of another increase of a penny per lb. Th* manufacturers* price is Is. fid. per lb. The Horowhenua Electric Power Beard has decided that the necessary petition for the formation of the board should et once be submitted to the ratepayers. A case of more than usual interest to property-holders was decided at the I'oxton Magistrate’s Court yesterday, when tho Rev. W. H. Walter, vicar of AU Saints* Church, summoned the Foxton Borough Council to show reasons why ho should have to cut down certain trow, on the vicarage property on Avenue Road. After viewing the property, the Magistrate declared the Borough Council’s notice to be void. He stated that he did not consider the road was in any way affected by the tree®. At the meeting of tho Palmerston North Borough Council last night, a councillor stated that the shortage of houses In the borough was becoming more acute every month. During tne seven months of this year there had been 126 marriages, while in tho same period only sixty houses had been erected.