Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, APRIL 17, 1923. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2568, 17 April 1923, Page 2

Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, APRIL 17, 1923. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The eompleto electors roll for the borough of Foxton contains 700 mimes. Copies of the roll may he obtained at the Town Clerk’s office.

Edward Denim, aged . r )f> years, a plantation worker at Dusky, near Tapanui, was found dead in bed yesterday. Regarding the Imperial Conference, Mr Massey says il is not his intention to have a special session and that the selection of a representative will lie held in abeyance until the summoning of Parliament.

Sixteen nominations have been received for the nine seats on the Palmerston Borough Council. There are two nominations for the Mayoralty, viz. Messrs >S. IL Lancaster and E. Nathan.

We are asked to request all bandsmen to attend at All Saints’ schoolroom this evening for a combined practice in connection with the Anzac Day service. It is anticipated that over thirty bandsmen will participate.

At last night’s householders' meeting Mr Banks, local headmaster, paid a tribute to the good work being accomplished at the Beach school by Miss Patton, the teacher. He also stressed the necessity for an increased playing area at the local school, as the present grounds were too cramped.

The Town Hall this afternoon was the scene of great excitement, the occasion being l the opening sale of English warehouseman’s bankrupt drapery stock, which is being conducted by the Awahou Auctioneering Coy. The stock is without doubt the largest and best ever offered by public auction in the town of Foxton and during the afternoon there was keen competition for the various lines offered.

Commissioner Lamb, speaking at St. Dunstan’s in the East, said the Salvation Army, during the past twenty years had emigrated one hundred and fifty thousand people to the Dominions and only one per cent, had proved failures. The Army always made adequate provision for men, women and children landing overseas. If by chance there was not a job for an emigrant to go to immediately, the Army made a living allowance till work was found. The Army was now aiming at sending ten thousand boys to the Dominions. There were still people in England who did not want doles and these should he helped to opportunities of usefulness overseas.

Speaking at last night’s householders’ meeting, Mr Hornblow (chairman of committee), said in Mr Geo. Coley the committee possessed n man who, he believed, held a Dominion record for length of service on :i school commit tee, extending over a continuous period of about thirty years. Mr Coley's enthusiasm on behalf of the children and school had never waned. Each year he had been mainly responsible for raising funds for prizes and the annual picnic and had been a generous donor. On behalf of the parents and children lie thanked Air Coley for his whole-hearted service and hoped he would he spared many years to continue this good work. The remarks were received with an appreciative outburst of applause.

A distressing fatality occurred on SI. John’s Hill, Wanganui, yesterday morning, by which a boy named Thomas Vincent Balliugall, aged 9-2 years was killed instantly, lie and his younger brother, Alexander, aged 0 years, were riding a bicycle to school, the older boy steering and the younger sitting on the bar. They were coming down a steep side road and crossed the main road at right angles right in front of a car driven by Mrs McRae, of Palmerston North. The hoys evidently lost control of the machine, and Mrs Mcßae, seeing the danger, swerved the car sharply up a steep bank where it overturned, the driver having a narrow escape, fortunately suffering only from shock. A collision, however, was unavoidable, and the elder boy was killed outright, while the younger lad was bruised and rendered unconscious, but is not seriously injured.

The Minister for Public Works (the Hon. J. 6. Coates) yesterday visited the Mangnhao electric works and to-day inspects improvement works in tiie Manawatu gorge, when representatives of contributing bodies also chamber. of commerce

and members of the board, meet the Minister to go into the question of the amount of the Government subsidy mi the work.

At the inquest at Dannevirke, yesterday, on the death of John Bell who was killed at the Mangatamauti Bridge on Friday, evidence showed that deceased was stripping

a casing off green concrete on a pier, when the pier collapsed, deceased being buried under the concrete. The opinion of witnesses was that the earthquake the same evening damaged it to such an extent as to cause it to collapse. The coroner returned a verdict that death was caused through fracture of the skull.

Following a lengthy and paiut.nl illness, Mr John Coulson Fowler, a well-known member of.' Palmerston North district, passed away on Saturday last. Tt was 45 years ago that Mr Fowler came to New Zealand. taking over the mnagenieiil ot the Heady Money Stores, at Foxton. Upon moving to Palmerston North, he took up a similar position at the local business of the same name. He subsequently was in business on his own account in Palmerston and Napier and finally took up his residence near Marion.. ITe leaves, beside a widow, a daughter and two sons, namely, Mrs K. Woods (Ashhurst), Messrs Kenric Hilton Fowler and Harold John Fowler, both of Marion.