Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1927. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3599, 15 February 1927, Page 2

Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1927. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr. J. (Jordon Eliott, M.l’., is urgiiijy Feilding’s claim to be included in the itinerary of (he Royal visit, and he intends to make the strongest possible representations to the Prime Minister immediately he returns.

C. K. Woodrooi'e report a very sueeessfu.l mart sale on Saturday. There was a large attendance of buyers. Fowls brought from 1/9 to 2/6 each. There was a good demand for fruit and furniture.

At last night’s Council meeting, Cr. Cowley, said objection had been taken to young men half-clad undergoing cycle training in the Main Street on Sundays, particularly at a time when people were going to church. Other Councillors agreed that the practice should be discontinued.

The funeral of the late Mr. O’Hagen, who was the victim of the sad drowning fatality at Foxton on Friday last, took place at Kuineroa on Sunday. The procession of forty-three cars gave evidence of the high respect- in which the late Mr. O’Hagen was held by the residents of the Kumeroa district.

Six persous lost their lives through drowning during the week end in different parts of the Dominion, one at Rangitikei Heads, two Maori boys at Awaki.no, A. M. Wighton at Hastings, Lyle Margaret, Stella Raddiffe, at the Thorndon Baths and David McGregor at Invercargill. A number of other bathers were rescued.

“Nowhere have 1 seen shorter skirts than those worn by the Auckland girls,” said an Aucklander recently returned from a world tour. “The flappers of London, Paris, New York, Chicago or Sydney can’t teach New Zealand anything about abbreviated dresses. Why, they wear (hem shorter here than they do in Sydney, and Sydney's hard to heat, as you know.”

At last night’s meeting of the Borough Council the poundkeeper reported, that 25 head of stock had been Impounded during the past, month, and 12s in fees collected. The waterworks foreman reported at last night's Borough Council meeting that the staff had been busy in putting down the sewer in Whyte Street, and all maintenance work had been kept up-to-date. Dining the month 2,132,00 ft gallons of water had been pumped.

Entcrpi ising business-men in Ecilding are now busily organising in order to obtain tin* ratepayers’ sanction to beep the shops open for business on Saturday afternoons. The consensus of opinion is that closing on Saturdays has not been in the best interests of the town and while it is admitted that the week-end half-holiday is tin* ideal one if made universal, existin'*- circumstances do not commend the day to those who have the interests of the town a I heart.

The fallowing 1 discharges in bankruptcy were gran led in tht* Supreme Coui'l in Palmerston North on Satnda.y:—Oscar Alhet Jorgensen, nrehileet,-of Palmerston. North; Brace Alexander McKay, horsebreaker, of Dannevirke; Henry Charles Lintorn, electrician, formerly of Palmerston North, and now of Geraldine; William Henry Honey, land agent’s clerk, of Palmerston North; Hans Peter Jensen, formerly a taxi-driver, of Otaki, and now a labourer, of Mataroa.

Ait a meeting- of the executive of the Aianawatu Sub-Centre of the Royal Life-Saving Society, held at Palmerston N. this week, it was stated that as a result of the recent drowning fatality at Foxon, the executive decided to point out to the Foxton Harbour Board the inadequaef of a surf-reel unless there is a suitable experienced patrol to man it; and to suggest that it would be wiser to procure a number of ships’ life-belts and dispose them in handy positions at the Heads and along the beach.

Al last night's Council meeting the Town Clerk reported that up to the 30th September last, out of £337 collected as heavy traffic licenses, Foxton’s share was £7B. He pointed out that Leviu collected £202, and received £122. Shannon collected £l3l, and received £4B, while Otaki collected £lO and received £7O. He stated he had brought this matter forward to illustrate how unfairly the magistrate’s apportionment of the fees worked out. It was agreed that nothing could he done at the present juncture to alter this, and the matter dropped.

A young man from the artillery battery in camp at the racecourse, essayed to' walk to Palmerston and hack on Sunday. He got as far as the railway crossing on the Bainessc road when he was picked and given a lift to Palmerston. On arrival there the people whom he desired to visit were not at home and he started in the heat to pad the hoof back to camp. He got as far as Bainesse on the homeward trudge in the heat and through the dust when he was again picked up by the same car on its homeward journey. He was then practically exhausted but stated that lie intended to get back to camp by 10 p.m. —a physical impossibility. He hailed one or two passing cars hut they refused to give him a “lift” He was physically exha listed when lie returned lo the camp.