NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3898, 24 January 1929, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

lOonsent 'to the raising of a loan of £SOOO to build a concrete Town Hall in Hunteiwille is gazetted. The Public Works Department is engaged in improving the access to the Massey Memorial on Point HalsAvell, Wellington. Under the Avill of the late Robert Elder, tof Kakamii, North Otago, retired farmer, £IOO is bequeathed to Dr. Rarnardo’s Homes.

Having appointed a butcher to kill it’s meat, the Waikato Hospital Board finds it lias no place for him to work. Last week’s Gazette announces that certificates of naturalisation have been granted to 45 persons, all from European countries. Cabinet has decided to call tenders for a fortnightly mail service between Dunedin, Bluff and Melbourne, commencing' on October 1 next.

An Order in Council has" been issued approving of the W-ailmakariri River Trust (Canterbury) raising a loan of. £IOO,OOO at not unlove than 54 per cent, per annum. -Since the old hydro-electric dam was removed from, the Patea river at Stratford- many big trout have been able to come up the river as far as the town, and nfany good catches have been recorded, says the Post. ■

The old Maori Girls’ College building at Turakina, which has served as >a landmark (for many years, is (gradually being removed and only the front portion remains for the “breakers.”

•Says a Wellington city nature note: The tui is heard from time to time in the Botanical Gardens, especially when the lcawhai is in bloom. The shining cu'ckoo is also heard occasionally in the season. A similar ease to that of a wren hatching out and rearing a euekoo -at Mr. D. Ingle’s residence is reported to have occurred at the residence of Mr. G. L. Marshall, “Greenbank,” Marton (says the Fcilding Star).