Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 19I7. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1749, 21 August 1917, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1917. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Accounts amounting to £7Ol 18s B<l were passed for payment at last night’s Borough Couneil mooting.

The 'Borough Council at last night’s meeting decided to order 15 trucks of Belmont crushed metal as a trial.

The annual general meeting of members of the Foxon Bowling Club will be held in the Town Hall supper-room on Friday evening next, at 8 o’clock.

Mr Barrie Marschcl is in Foxton arranging for the exhibition on Tuesday, 28th inst., of E. J. Carroll’s great propagandist picture, ‘‘Where are my Children?”

The funeral of the late Mrs Henderson will leave the residence of her late husband, Ravensworth Place, for the Palmerston cemetery at 1 p.m. to-morrow. Referring to the Manawatu County Council’s construction of the Beach Road, at last night’s Borough Council meeting, Cr Coley said it was a disgrace. He said the metal was two-thirds mud and stones. He considered the Council had been robbed in the cost of construction.

The Queen of the South sailed for Wellington last night hemp laden, and is due to-morrow night from Wellington with a cargo of oil and general.

At last night’s Council meeting (he following resolution was carried : “In all cases where gas is used in a private dwelling for both lighting and heating with one meter, the first GOO ft. he charged at lighting rates.”

We regret to have to record the death of Mrs Jane, aged 33 years, wife of Mr W. Jane, which took place at her residence, Coley Street, on Sunday night. The cause of death was heart failure. We extend our sincere sympathy to the bereaved husband, who, with two little children, aged ten and eight years respectively, arc left to mourn (heir loss. The funeral will take place 10-morrow, leaving the; residence a I 2 o'clock.

Jit last night’s Council meeting, prior to the business being taken, the Mayor moved, and CT. Stevenson seconded, that this Council expresses its sincere syihpathy with Cr. Henderson in the sad loss he has sustained by the death of his wife. The ■ motion was carried in silence. The Mayor said that Inhad ordered a wreath to he placed mi the coffin on behalf of the Council, and his action was unanimously endorsed.

Mis J. I’’. Reay, of Maroliri, has received word that her brother, Gunner Waller Francis, of (lift (il-li Reinforcements, who was wounded with shrapnel in Ihe Messines battle, is returning homo (his week. Gunner Francis was wilh Gunner Howe nj) lo within a wee!;, of ihe hitler's joining (lift trench mortar company, when he was killed while manning his gun. Mrs Reny’s oilier brother, also a member of the (ith Reinforcements, was wounded in a recent engagement. Goth brothers went to Egypt with the Mounted Rides, and saw service on Gallipoli and fought through the Somme.

The Chairman of the local School Committee has received the following communication from Mr W. 11. Field, M.R. for this constituency: — “1 have to thank yon for your letter of the 11th inst.. conveying y<mr Committee's unanimous approval of ‘the New Zealand Educational Circular’ on (he subject of Ihe early closing of hold bars, i am entirely of your Committee's opinion on the subject of the impoverishment of homes through drinl;, indeed, the worst feat tin 1 of our licensing system is (hal (here are men wilh wives and families in the community, though classed as moderate drinkers, expend money in the hotels which should be taken home and utilised for the maintenance and comfort of (heir wives and families. How this is to bo avoided, short of absolutely closing the hotels, I am unable to say. Your Committee, however, can rely on my vote going in the direction of a substantial curtailment during the war and for some time thereafter of the hours during which lujuor is at present allowed lo be sold."