Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, APRIL 27. 1922. LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Several cases of gastric inlluenza are reported in this district.
Frosts were experienced in this district yesterday and this morning followed by warm sunshine.
The flag was flown from the staff of the Post Office on Monday Tuesday, in commemoration of St. George’s Day and Anzac Day.
A good deal of damage to fences etc. is reported throughout the district as a result of the recent heavy gales.
A Wanganui, paper states that Katana’s mail is rapidly growing, and he has received some 100,000 letters.
A special service was held in All Saints’ Church on Anzac morning conducted by the vicar, the Rev. W. Walton.
A feature of the Anzac Day services held throughout the Dominion on Tuesday was the note of loyalty .4ruck by the speakers without exception.
A large number of local Masons attended the Installation ceremony in connection with Lodge Mannwatu Kilwinning at Palmerston North last night.
The estimate of receipts and expenditure and notification of striking rates for the current year is published h.v the Town Clerk elsewhere in this'issue. , Mr J. Aitkin, at one time on the staff of the local state school and well-known in musical circles, has taken up his duties as schoolmaster at Mouloa.
AI Monday night’s Council meetffig a vote of thanks was passed to tile' Borough staff for the way in which they had carried out their work during the pas! year.
The friends of Mrs A. N. Smith, who recently underwent a serious operation in a private hospital in Palmerston North, will he pleased to know that she is making a splendid recovery and will return to her home this week.
Those present at Monday night’s Council meeting were: —the Mayor (John Chrystall Esq.) and Councillors Bryant, Whibley, Smith, Rand, Ross, ,Martin, Walker, Thompson, and Coley. Air King, water and drainage engineer, was also in attendance.
On account of the flaxmills closing down for some weeks, as is usual about this time of the year, a large number of Shannon men have started work for the Public Works Department.
At the Police Court Auckland, Robert Webb, a watersider, was fined £lO for tote odds betting at Avondale on Saturday. The police stated that it was bis first attempt at bookmaking. He had taken forty-two bets on the seventh race.
The Rev, G. K. and Mrs Aitkin were visitors to Foxton yesterday. They left for Featherston to-day. The visitors met rnapy of their friends at the social afternoon in the Masonic Hall yesterday.
A Dunedin resident, visiting a property which he had not seen for many months, found that someone had built a house on it. Inquiry elicited the fact that the builder had placed the house on tlie wrong section.
The Mayor in speaking on the water and drainage scheme, at Monday night’s council meeting said that he had measured the new artesian bore and found that there was an excellent How of 80 gallons to the minute (130,000 gals, per 24 hours) The bore in no way effected the flow of the other bores.
At Monday night’s Council meeting the Mayor, in reply to a councillor’s remark that the Hospital and Charitable Aid levy was rather high for the present year, said that lie thought the Palmerston North Hospital Board should he congratulated on its capable and careful administration. The council had no cause to complain in this direction.
A Ideal Returned Soldier called upon us this morning and desired to make public protest against certain returned soldiers, who, he alleged followed their usual occupation on Anzac,Dnv. insteifd of observing the day as the Act provided. He said if returned soldiers failed to properly observe the day it would not he long before its observance lost its sacred significance. He added that lie and his companions felt this mutter very much.
A safety belt has been put round a flax swamp at Marlborough to protect it wrom fire. With the use of a tractor, a wide belt of the surrounding raupo has been flattened down >o as to enable any outbreak of fire in the raupo to he prevented from spreading to the valuable swamp. It is interesting to note that the tractor does the work well and efficiently, travelling over the wainp ground on top of the crushed raupo, whereas horses could not possibly he used.
The death of a very old and respected resident of Nnpier, in the person of Mr Stephen Freeman, took place on Saturday morning. The deceased gentleman, who was in his 92nd year, was horn in London in 1830, and was married in 1849. He left England in the Southern Crqss, Captain Charlton, in May 1855, arriving in Wellington in September of that year, afterwards proceeding to Napier, where he arrived on October 7th, 1855. He lias lived in Napier except for short intervals' ever since.
Probably # ihe first Ministers’ Council ever held in Foxton, is to meet here the second week in June. The Rev. L. Mini fie, who on behalf of the Foxton Methodist Church officials invited tlu* Methodist Hawke’s Bay and the Mannwatu Ministers councils to meet here, has received official intimation that the invitation has been accepted for the early part of June, Upwards of 16 ministers will he in attendance among whom will be the Rev. T. R. Richards, chairman of the‘district, and Rev. A. Ashcroft, secretary of X. Z. Methodist conference.
Speaking at the Anzac Service at the local State School ceremony on Monday, the chairman of the Committee referred to the unrest within the Empire and evidences of disloyalty within this Dominion. During the Great War those who were prepared to, and did make the supreme sacrifice for King and Empire, freedom and righteousness, were sneered at as “cannon fodder.” Those who spoke thus were still in our midst ready to assist in the disintegration of the Empire. To safeguard the children ngaint such disloyalists if had been necessary to impose the oath of allegiance. He urged the children to “Love Gqd and Honour the King” and justify in Iheir lives the sacrifices made by the glorious dead for King and Empire. He concluded by saying that under God the Empire had to fulfil a great and glorious destiny in which, they would he called upon to play their part.
Steady progress is being made with the sand dhne reclamation work undertaken a little to the south of the Rangitikei River month by the State Forest Service. The first problem was to check (he tremendous sand drift that flows inland from the coast through the valleys between the frontal dunes, and this is being tackled by the construction of rough barricades formed of driftwood. 'Vertical stakes are driven into the sand, and all sorts of logs and branches are interlaced to make a strong harrier. As the drifting sand piles against, the obstruction and threatens' to overlap it, the barricade will l>e built still higher until a long unbroken dune stretches along the foreshore. Behind this front line of defence, marram grass will he planted to hold the loose sand. As soon as some form of stability is reached, experimental tree planting will be undertaken with the ultimate view of foresting the great area of waste land which at present stretches far inland and is a constant menace to the adjoining farm lands.
By a close division, the Palmerston Borough Council defeated a motion by the Mayor to substitute day labour for contract in order to provide work for local unemployed.
The ordinary monthly meeting of the local Oddfellows Lodge will be held in the Presbyterian schoolroom at 7.30 o'clock this evening. Business important, and a full attendance requested. The Rev. A. Doull, M.A., has tendered his resignation of the charge of St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Palmerston North, owing to continued ill-health.
Mr S. Jackson, manager of the Whirokino Run, notifies that trespassers with dog or gun on the property will he prosecuted without respect to persons.
We are informed by a Beach resident that there is a plague of mice at the local seaside. Bedding in unoccupied houses is being destroyed, and other damage done to furniture, etc.
The annual.meeting of the Foxton Patriotic Society will be held in the Council Chambers at 8 o’clock /this evening when the report and balance sheet will be submitted for adoption and a committee.elected for the ensuing year.
The sum of £2B 17s 0d was received for the sale of poppies in Fox ton. The number forwarded was f'O at 2s and 44S at Is. All the 2s poppies sold readily and only C 9 of the shilling ones will have to be returned.
A most successful social afternoon was held by the lady members of the local Presbyterian Church in the Masonic Hall yesterday afternoon. There was a representative attendance. Afternoon tea was dispensed, and a busy time experienced bv stall-holders. Competitions and social intercourse whiled away a pleasant time. The takings totalled upwards of £25.
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