Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, APRIL 15, 1919. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1965, 15 April 1919, Page 2

Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, APRIL 15, 1919. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Accounts amounting to £BBO Lis Id were passed for payment at last night's Borough Council meeting.

The Otahi ranger, while in (he execution of his duty last week, was set upon hy a Maori woman, who rescued a horse the ranger was impounding.

“Why do you strike out best and put in better?” asked (he Minister of Education at the Mastcrlon school. The child who knew replied, “Because you can’t put in gooder.”

There were present at the monthly meeting of the Borough Conned held hist night The Mayor (Mr J. Chrystall) and Crs Hurley, Hannah, Kempster, Bryant, Thompson, McMiirray, Coley, Walker and Hender-

A married woman, Honora Richards, aged To years, was found dead hanging by the nedk by a rope in a washhouse at her residence, Keppie Street, Arch Hill, Auckland. Inst Friday. At the inquest a verdict that she committed suicide while of unsound mind was returned.

The secretary of the local branch of the Workers’ Educational Association made application for the use of the Council Chambers in which to hold the weekly classes. —It was decided on the-motion of the Mayor, seconded by Cr. Thompson, that the use of the Chamber be granted on Friday evenings, on condition that the Association pay for gns used, provided that the Chamber is not jreejuired for Council meetings.

Nominations for Mayor and Councillors close on Wednesday, 23rd inst., and the election takes place on the following 'Wednesday/ 30th inst.

Nominations of householders for the school committee elections will be received updo 8 p.m. of Tuesday, 29th inst. The election will take place iu the Town Hall the samo evening. A half-acre section in Watson Street was submitted at auction yesterday afternoon by Messrs Mounsey and Co., under instructi ons from the Kegistrar of the Supreme Court. Bidding commenced at £ls. and rose by £5 bids to £lO, a'/ which figure the section was sold to Mr A. M. Wright. At last night’s Council meeting Messrs Abraham and Williams, Ltd., made application for permission (o creel sale yards in the borough. They staled they had not yet dually decided upon a site, but it would probably be in Hulko, Union or Johnston Streets. As soon as the Council’s permission was obtained an immediate start would be made with I lie erection of the yards. —It was muntjmously decided that permission lie granted for (he erection of yards in cither Hulko, Union or Bussell Streets.

Next Thursday week, 211 h inst., the public of Poxton will he afforded an opportunity of hearing an address on educational affairs by Mr H. A. Parkinson, secretary of the New Zealand Educational Institute, Mr Parkinson was for many years, and up till a few weeks ago, headmaster of the Newtown School, which position lie relinquished to lake up the secretarial duties oi the N.Z. Educational Institute, with which body he has been connected in an executive capacity for several years. The subject of the address will he “Brains and Wealth,” and every one interested in the grcadi cause of education should make a. point of attending.