Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, JULY 20, 1918. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1855, 20 July 1918, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, JULY 20, 1918. LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Education Board has decided to carry out repairs to the local school at a cost of £27.

The cost of the military occupation of Saniya to the 31st of March of this year was £537,928 12s lOd.

\Vc understand Mr G. Greig, local stationmaster, is to be transferred to the Auckland district. So far there is no official advice as to who his successor will be.

The Thirty-seventh Reinforcements have reached their destination. The Thirty-eighth have been reported all well, and the Thirty-ninth reached a port of call all safe.

, The list of new Magistrates includes Mr J. S. Barton (of Messrs Barton and Mazengarb, solicitors, Wellington), and Mr S. F. Free, of North Canterbury (formerly of Messrs Free and Cotterell, solicitors).

The recent Hoods in the Rangitikei river have done considerable damage to the protection works to the approach of the Bulls bridge, and yesterday the Rangitikei County engineer had a gang of men repairing the damage. Shortly after 3 o’clock this morning the shrill whistle of the railway locomotive aroused people from their slumbers. The cause of the alarm was a small outbreak of lire in the engine shed. The flames were got under before any material damage was done. Inhale NAZOL every day and coughs and colds will slay away. Penetrating and. germ-killing. Sixty doses I/O. Use the Nazoi Inhaler.

At Thursday night's Council mootingl a motion of: condolence with the relatives of the late JRev. Father Dore was earned in silence, the momhcrs standing.

Bars to the Military Medal have boon awarded Sergeant C. ft. Kidman, of the New Zealand Medical Corns, Military Medals have boon awarded lifty-six New Zealanders.

The Queen of the South, from Wellington with a cargo of general, is due to-morrow morning. She will sail again for Wellington on Monday night, hemp laden.

Yesterday was one of the eoldest days experienced in (his district for many years. A few flakes of snow fell in the morning, and a heavy fall took place on the lower spurs of the ranges.

A football match was to have been played at Foxton to-day between teams from the Levin and Foxton schools, but it. has been postponed on account of the water over the road preventing the Levin boys from getting through. The match will take place next. Saturday.

The concert organised by 'Messrs Ellers, Hakaria and Company, and given in the Town Hall last nigh! in aid of the funds of the Borough Band, was very good, all the items being well received. The Borough Band played several selections outside the Hall before the commencement of the entertainment, and at the conclusion of same Mr A. Smith, secretary of the Band, thanked the performers for assisting the funds.

Correspondence from (he Lands Department was read at Thursday’s Council meeting, advising that the Minister had agreed to the suggestion that the valuation of the Round Bush should be assessed by a committee consisting of one representative each of the' Harbour Board, Borough Council and Government, these three to appoint an umpire to decide in ease of any difference. The Council appointed the Mayor as its representative.

Rome weeks ago a farm labourer, who was known by the name of William Jones, disappeared from Himatangi, and at the same time a motor cycle and sum of money was missed by other employees on the same farm. A warrant was issued for the arrest of Jones, and advice has now been received that Jones, whose proper name is Richard Harold Edwin Giles, has been' arrested in Dunedin for several offences, and will also be charged with the theft of the motor cycle and money. The motor cycle has been recovered.

A local resident informed us yesterday that his wife was asked to sign a petition forwarded by Mrs Gill, and being circulated by the local Labour Party, asking that the proposed maternity ward be not erected on the Hospital site at Palmerston. Wo are informed that the individual taking round the petition stated the Hospital Board proposed to (-onvert, a fever ward into a maternity hospital. Such a statement is not only untrue and ridiculous, but displays gross ignorance on hospital matters by the person responsible for making the statement.

The following offers of appointments' and i runs Hors huve l»(*un accepted by (he Wanganui Education Hoard: —Halcombo, second nsMslant, M iss A. Managh; Buunylhorpe, sccopd assistant, Miss 0. Emms; Okoia, aiding solo lonelier, Mr 0, Ilaydon; Denl;iir, solo teacher, Miss M. Richardson: Pakibikiira, sole second special assislanl, Miss M. Da nit'll; Campbell Si reel, bead teacher, Mr R. B. Ryder; Ohingaili, assislanl, Miss A. McKee; Keith Sired Infants', second assislanl. Mi ss B. Hart; Marlon, head teacher, Mr Ij. F. de Herry; Timakokekote, aiding sole teacher, Miss J. D, Storrie; Makohan, sole teacher, Miss Beard; Campbell Street, acting' first assislanl, Mr A. Bullions; Campbell Street, seventh assistant, Miss J. Bradley; Campbell Sired, eighth assislanl. Miss E. PigolI; - Campbell Street, ninth assistant, Miss P. Seeker; Foxton, fourth assislanl, Miss V. 11. Rav.

There passed away at Palmerston North on Thursday probably the oldest master printer in Australasia, in (he person of Mr Richmond Christopher Knewslub, aged 8(i years. The lale Mr Knewslub learned (lie art of printing with.his father in Sheerness, England. He arrived in Melbourne in 1850, and subsequently started a planting business in Ballarat. He came to New Zealand in company with the late Sir Julius Vogel in the early sixties, and was associated with the latter in a newspaper venture in Dunedin, He went (o Gabriel’s Gully, and subsequently was connected with the Auckland Star, Wellington Evening Post —where he printed the first sheet almanac in connection with that journal—Government Printing Office, Lyttelton Times, Otago Daily Times, and other offices. He was a master craftsman of the first order. Deceased came to live with his son at Eoxton in 1911. His wife predeceased him about 14 years ago. He leaves three suns, Mr D. Knewstub (Foxton), Mr F. Knewstub (Keystone Cinema Co., Los Angeles, U.S.A.), and Mr W. Knewstub (farmer, Dannevirke), and one daughter, Mrs T. Martin (Wellington). The deceased was of a very retiring disposition, and was highly esteemed by all who knew him. The funeral took place at Palm,erston to-day.

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There wore present nt the special meet in" of the Borough Council on Thursday evening; The Mayor (Mr John Chrysliill), and Crs Hurley, Jumpslcr, McMnrray, Hannah mid Thompson.- An apology for absence was received from Cr Coley.

The following names wore inadvertently omitted from the list of those who contributed to the Moutoa ladies’ patriotic shop effort last Saturday: Mosdanies -las. and Chas. Robinson, Miss ;Me Murray, Miss Annie Bowe, and Mr Geo. Mnhekev.

At Thursday night’s Council meeting the .Mayor •mentioned that Mr Wsifcrs, the Town Clerk, was due to go into the Cl Camp at the end of the month. Since Mr Waters had been in the Council’s employ he had not taken all the holidays he was entitled to, for which he should he recompensed. It was decided that on going into camp ho receive one month’s salary in lien of holidays.

, The Levin Chronicle, in referring to our comment (hat Mr B. K. Gardener, of Levin, would have been a worthy representative for HorowhemiH on the District Hospital, Board, says:—“The Herald’s opinion will be readily endorsed by everyone in this district, but unfortunately the law debars Mr Gardener, as an officer of a contributing body to the Hospital Board, from occupying a seat on the Board.’’

The following motion in reference to (he den Ih of: the Rev. Fa (her Dove was carried at a meeting of the executive of the Auckland Returned Soldiers’ Association on Wednesday night:—“That this executive has heard with deepest regret of the death of Captain Dore. late Chaplain to the Forces. As Captain Dore’s sincere devotion to his duty and his sterling qualities are known so well to all returned soldiers, we feel as an association that we have lost a friend and a comrade.”