LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3945, 21 May 1929, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A reminder is given all local motorists that their annual car licenses are now due for renewal. In thanking the (Chairman of the Foxton Harbour Board for his wei - come to the Board and for his remarks in 'connection with Mr. Perreau’s work in furthering the interests o'f the port in a canvass for a new boat for the local trade, the Mayor at yesterday’s meeting stated he had merely attempted a little organising. The men who should receive the thanlks of the Board, he said, Avere those who had put the money into the company, “and,” lie concluded, looking around the table, “I can see the best part of £I,OOO in this room.” When the question of members travelling expenses was under discussion at yesterday’s meeting of the Foxton Harbour Board Mir. A. Kellolw, the Feilding representative, said that lie did not altogether favour the suggestion that members should receive 8d per mile,"one way. “W|hy,” he said, “every time I attended a meeting, it would cost the Board £1 and I’m not worth £1 a day on the Board.” “I think I’ve heard about you, before,” said Mr. R. E. Edwards, “and in my opinion you’re Avorth several hundred pounds a year to the Board.”

Recent investigations into the death of Samuel McAleese, on the lonely Motu Road on May 9th, now lead those concerned to believe that deceased Avas killed by the accidental discharge of his rifle and that the body was aftenvards struck by a passing motor-car. The police, in the course of their imrestigations, interviewed all persons Avho were reported to have passed over the road on the day of McAleese’s mysterious death, and it is known that among those interviewed Avere certain motorists. It is believed that at the inquest the police will seek to prove that the body was moved by these motorists, so that they could drive their car past, and that they afterwards drove on without reporting that there was a dead man on the road. The possibility that McAleese Avas struck by the car when a live, and that in consequence of the impact, his ‘rifle was discharged, will also lie carefully gone into.

The mind of man still fails to grasn, The measure of eternity; Time’s aAvful vista makes him gasp, With dread of Avhat is yet to be. But mirth and music cheer us still, And love our hearts can bliss assure ; For influenza, cough, or chill, There’s Woods’ Great Peppermint cure.—4.