Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1927. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3730, 15 December 1927, Page 2

Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1927. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

We desire to acknowledge a handsome calendar for 1928 from Mr. E. R. Booth, motor and general engineer, of Whyte St,reet, Foxton. It has been decided to pay the January 1928 instalments of pen-’ sions and family allowances ns from Thursday the' 22nd December,% inclusive. The Manawatu County Council passed a resolution at Tuesday’s meeting giving permission to lorries with pnoumato, tyres to travel at a speed not exceeding 20 miles per hour. Mr. 6. Westwood met with a painful accident while working at one of the local flaxmills the other day. His hand became 'caught in the stripper and was badly crushed. [■ The Methodist Sunday School will hold their anniversary on Sunday next, when the children will sing special hymns, under the eonduetorship of Mr. R. T. Betty, and services appropriate to the. day will be preached. It was stated at Tuesday’s meeting of the Manawatu County Council that the Bulls bridge was getting in a bad state of repair. 1 It was reported that the cost of strengthening the bridge would run into £B,000. It was decided to ascertain the intentions of the Rangitikei County Council (the controlling authority) on the subject. At the monthly meeting of directors of the Shannon Co-operative. Dairy Co. Ltd., held on Saturday, the following resolution was carried: “That this Company enters an emphatic protest against the evidence given by the Secretary of the New Zealand Employers Federation before the Arbitration Amendment. Bill Commission which was against the express wish of the majority of farmers. Two birds were killed with one stone —a foundation-stone — on Saturday afternoon, when Sir Maui Pomare, Acting-Minister of Internal Affairs, opened the new fire station at Mount Roskill (states the “New Zealand Herald”). At the commencement of the ceremony the Minister was asked to lay the foun-dation-stone. Half an hour later he declared the completed building open for public service. Sir Maui remarked that it was his first experience of the composite ceremony. At Tuesday’s Manawatu County Council meeting the tramway manager reportel as follows for the month of November: The chief items of traffic were: Grain 261 tons, minerals 139 tons, manure 471 tons, merchandise 53£ tons, cheese 44 toils, sheep and pigs 12 trucks, posts 7 trucks, metal 226 trucks, chaff 2 trucks, wool 65 bales, timber 2159 sup. 4'eet, eggs 107 crates, rails 8 trucks. Fares 14/3'. The accounts for the month show a debit of £8 17s lid. Alterations to the County rath roll were approved of at Tuesday’s meeting of the Manawatu County Council as follows: H. L. Hart to H. J. and W. S. Locke, lot 2, pt. sec. 384, Carnarvon; F. H. Claasen to A. end A. A. Hall, lots 6 and 8, pit. see. 354, Carnarvon; R. Kelso to F. S. Goldingham, pt. Railway Reserve, To Kawau; Public Trustee to C. W. Earle and others, secs, 506, gll and 514, Carnarvon; W. G. Hart to Wanganui Education Board, lot 21, sec. A, Sanson; Ihikara Matika and others to F. L. Stephens, lots-98/9, 152, 153, 156/9, township of Awahuri; W. Brookie to Job Harris, 43, Sandon. Four English nightingales, the first ever brought to the Southern Hemisphere, arrived in Auckland last week on the Aorangi. They have been brought from London by Mr. Angus Wilson, son of Mr. Gilbert Wilson, of St. Heliers Bay, and are the gift of Mr. David Garnett, the author, who has expressed the wish that the bird which has inspired so many English poets and writers may be induced to sing amid our “fields of alien corn.” It is Mr. Wilson’s intention, on the receipt of official permission, to release the nightingales in the Auckland district. They will be ringed before release, as the opinion was held at Home that they might attempt to fly home to their native English woods, the nightingale being the most “homesick” bird in the world.

For buttcrfat supplied during tiie month of November to the Shannon Co-operative Dairy Co’s, factory, the payout will lie 1/5 per lb. The accident which occurred on the Rangitikei Line on November 10th, when a motor car, driven by Alexander Kirk Mitchell, of Newbury, collided with the Public Works train, and as a result of which Mrs. Mitchell sustained fatal injuries, was the subject of a prosecution in the Palrerston North Police Court yesterday, when the driver of the car was charged with having, while in a state of intoxication and by an act of omission, caused the death of his wife. The accused pleaded not guilty and was committed for trial.