Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, APRIL 8, 1922. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2415, 8 April 1922, Page 2

Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, APRIL 8, 1922. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Members of the Third tirade football team will meei the coach and selectors at Pen-can's rooms on Monday evening, at 7.30 o’clock.

It is stated that, a number of members of the Post and Telegraph Officers' Association in Palmerston \orlh have resigned Jrom that body ;i> a protest against t he decision to affiliate with the Labour Alliance.

Mr Din-ward is being nominated lor a vacancy on the Wanganui Board of Education for the Palmerston North district, rendered vacant by the resignation of Mr Alt'. Mahon. Mr Durward is chairman of tin- High School Board, and has taken a keen interest in educational matters in Palmerston for many years. All interested in suitably celebrating An/.uc Day are specially re<|iiested to attend the meeting to be held in the Council Chamber on Monday afternoon next, at 3 o’clock. Mr Rutherford will also bp in attendance to explain the celebration of “Poppy Day.” The Mayor asks that till who can make it; convenient to attend.

Recently the Forestry Department circularised the various county councils asking that, in view of the approaching dearth of timber, trees of ;i timber bearing value be planted in the spare land under the councils’ jurisdiction. The Manawatu County Council, having received the endorsement of the Surveyor-General, has decided to plant frees in the vicinity of the trig station on Mt. Stewart.

“I regret,” wrote a returned soldier to the Rangitikei County Council, “that I am unable to pay this year’s rates. I am on a Government farm, and the Government has an order on half my milk cheque, which Ims been very small this season. The other half has been retained by I be dairy company in payi.ietit for supplies, conscqnenlly i have no money at all.”

A meeting of the Easlown (Wanganui) Workshop employees yesterday passed a resolution congratulating the Cost and Telegraph Association on the result of the ballot to .join (he Allianee of Labour, and also “depreciating the action of various Chambers of Commerce and other semi-public bodies, who, by propaganda through the public press, are endeavouring to stampede tin' Government to prevent by legislation government by the majority in a lawfully constituted organisation."

There wa> a small but appreciative audience in the Town Hull on .Thursday night, when a really firstclass entertainment was given by a Levin concert parly. The object of the concert was to assist the Sports Queen candidate in connection with the LeVin Mnrdi Gras. All I lie items were keenly appreciated, the singing of Miss Miori and (lie •dancing of Miss May Kicno being of distinctive merit, while the instrumental items were excellent.

Between half-past ten o’clock on Wednesday night and early on Thursday morning, a cash register, containing £f> ] (ls, was stolen from the bar of I lie Commercial Hotel, at Palmerston, and also about nine bottles of spirits. Two men have been detained by the police in connection with the matter. During last week-end the sum of £3O in cash and also a bank-book were stolen from the secretary’s office in the Anzac Club, but £lB in another drawer was left undisturbed.

At the Manawatu County Council meeting on Tuesday, a special vote of thanks was passed to the clerk (Mr A. K. Drew) for his services on the council's stall, especially in connee lion with the council’s financial business.

The train arrangements for the Easter Holidays are advertised in this issue. Holiday Excursion tickets will be issued to any station, and extra express and mail trains will he mn. A restricted train service will be run on Good Friday. Special trains will run to Feilding Races on 15th and 17th instant, and excursion tickets from Palmerston N. will be issued to Wanganui on Tuesday, 18th inst., for world’s sculling championship.

Says the Palmerston Times: “Some years ago a theory was seriously discussed by electricians as to the effect of many lines of railway iron when a thunderstorm breaks in the vicinity. It was agreed that they acted as an effective lightning conductor, and that no damage occurred within the zone of their influence. This circumstance is recalled by a gentleman who says that specially severe shocks were experienced at Fox ton one day last week, where the storm appeared to centre for a long time. This he'attributes to the fact that the rails passing oyer the sandy ground are practically insulated, and as they terminate at Foxton, discharge the whole of the current.” [We may state that the storm centre on the occasion referred to was miles nway from (lie terminus of the railway lines.] An example of the strangely addressed envelopes with which the postal officials have to deal was shown to a Standard reporter recently. It bears the following address:—“The Superintendent, Matin wat a County Council Omnibus Co., Ltd., Manawatu Gorge, Auckland, New Ecu land.” The letter was iroin n man in Ea>( 11am, England, who, having seen a photograph in a weekly paper . of the Palmerston North municipal buses proceeding through the Manawatu Gorge from Napier, wrote asking for a position as a driver on one of the buses. The complicated nature of the address arose from various reasons, which were added to hv the fact that the wording under the photograph was to the effect that the buses were going to rite “Manawatu County Council,” instead of to I lie Palmerston North Borough Council. The letter, which reached the Dominion by the last mail,, ultimately came into the hands of Mr-A. K. Drew, clerk of the Manawatu County Council, who has forwarded it to the Mavor (Mr J. A. Nash, ALP.).