Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, JULY 24, 1923. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2610, 24 July 1923, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, JULY 24, 1923. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A special meeting of the Borough Council will be held at 7 pan. this evening. The second annual one week’s continual training for Senior cadets is now taking place on the local race-course under the control of Sergeant-Major Pea re. In moving the second reading of the Noxious Weeds Amendment Bill in the House last night, Mr Nosworthy said that measure gave power to local bodies to declare sweet briar and Canadian thistle not noxious. The Bill was read a second time.

“You’re a farmer," remarked counsel to a judgment debtor at the Magistrate’s Court at Hamilton. “Only in name,” came the response from the defendant, who explained that lie had (o walk off his farm and leave if in the hands of the mort-

Mr M. R. Varnhain, I lie architect for the Municipal buildings, in conversation with our representative,

slated that if the Borough Council is prepared to raise a loan lor the erection of a public library and reading room he will prepare the plans and specifications free of cost.

Miss Ethel Campbell, known as the angel of Durban to thousands of Australasian soldiers who called at the South African port during the war, because of her unwearying attention to their wants, arrived in Sydney on Saturday and was given, a demonstrative welcome by the soldiers.

Another very pleasant evening was spent by the Poxton Crib Club in Walls’ tea rooms on Thursday last. Reform defeated Liberal by a small majority, the scores being 75 to (>S. Mr \V. Coley won the first prize, Mr Randle the second, and Mr IT. McGregor the “booby prize.”

The inllnenza position at Dunedin is more favourable. Notifications for the past -IS hours lire 7. Thirty-two members of the nursing staff at tlie hospital are oil duly and four deaths have occurred since Saturday over the whole health district. Several schools reopened yesterday morning, but: eight fresh country ones closed. Seven out of. ten on the public library stall, are off duty.

The guard on I lie Mount Somers branch line has been notified that he had been lined £2 and transferred to Christdiurcli, “as a punishment for failing to comply with the regulation to test the Westinghouse brake.” This is the sequel to the derailment on June 15, wherein sixty lives, including children, were imperilled. The settlers are now petitioning the Commission of Enquiry alleging that the derailment was owing to the serious disrepair of the line.