Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, MAY 8, 1928. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3789, 8 May 1928, Page 2

Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, MAY 8, 1928. LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Foxton Silver Band assisted with the Military Church parade on Sunday. The Foxton Football Club will hold a dance in the Masonic Hall on Thursday evening. Admission: Gents 2/6, ladies 1/6. The new maternity 'ward at the Palmerston Hospital will be opened by the Minister of Health (Hon. J. A. Young), on May 28th.

“I hope to be present at the laying of the foundation stone of your new Court House,” said the Minister of Justice at the morning tea accorded him this morning.

While playing football at Feilding on Saturday a young man, Keith Peebles, aged 22, of W|oodville, received injuries to his head, being later admitted to Palmerston Hospital. He is progressing satisfactorily towards recovery. This morning the Minister of Justice, Hon. J. Rolleston, paid an informal visit to the Miuntcd; Rifles camp on the racecourse, when he was received by Colonel J. j Arm* strong, O.C. A gift of £SOOO has been received by the Otago University from Mrs. McGill Brown and will be used to found an annual scholarship for the Commerce faculty. One scholarship will be awarded each year and the term of each is two years. To-day the C. M. Ross Coy. advertise a list of special values. Right at the start of the cold weather you are offered seasonable goods at prices you would pay at the end of the season. Its up to you to take advantage of this liberal offer. Mr. F. G. Roe asked the Minister of Lands (Hon. A. D. McLeod), at the political meeting at Levin on Friday night, if there was any possibility of the Government re-con-sidering the Levin-Marton railway deviation proposal. “I am afraid my friend is not going to draw me into any question of policy',”. was the Minister’s reply.

Nearly 1200 refunds of - motor spirits tax have been m:ide by claimants in the Auckland:.; postal district in connection with!,-petrol used for. non-motoring purposes during the first quarter of the year. It is expected claims at the end of the second quarter will not greatly exceed one thousand, as' many pleasure launches will be laid up for the winter. A number of relate to farm machinery.

A Rongotea deputation - asked the Minister of Lands for a.'.school dental clinic and financial ./assistance towards paying travelling ex- * ° /V • . peuses of secondary pupils to Palmerston. A further deputation asked for financial assistance, towards the cost of forming A roal at the Tangimoana seaside settlement. The Minister promised to lay the representations before the ■: right quarters.

Referring to anomalies of land values when speaking at Levin on Friday night., the Minister of Lands (Hon. A. D. McLeod), said he believed that a sounder basis of valuation must be established. There should be only one basis of valuation; it was no use a man saying his land was worth £SO when he wanted to raise a 'loan on it and only £2O when he was to be rated on it. There should be one value. Skilled and permanent officers were necessary for valuing, though he had no fault to find with, the personal qualities of any valuer that he knew r of.

“Seated on your right; hand,” said Mr. J. K. Hornblow, when speaking to the Minister of Justice at the Court House this morning, “is Mr. Francis Robinson, our oldest settler, and a son of one of the Pilgrim Fathers of this Dominion. .Some GO odd years ago, Mr/Robinson was empanelled as a jurymhn at an inquest in this building, it was found that Mr. Robinson v T as ineligible as a juryman on that occasion as he was not 21 years or age. Mr. Robinson "is now’ 82 years of age, so that will give, sir, an idea of the age of this building of which, probably, your files have no record.”