Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, JULY 9, 1929. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3966, 9 July 1929, Page 2

Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, JULY 9, 1929. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Fox ton Fire Brigade’s annual iball will be held in the Towr Hall this evening.

At last night’s meeting of the Fox ton Bonxnjgh Council accounts amounting to £863 7/10 were passed for payment. A motion to introduce Sunday play was brought before the annual meeting - of the Island Bay Bowling Club last week. An animated discussion took place before .the motion was put to the meeting, In the end the proposal was heavily defeated by 43 votes to 15. The Bolrongih Council has had erected an extra street light in Main Street opposite the Police Station which has the effect of lighting up the southern end of the Triangle which in the past eonconstiituted a menace to traffic in Main Street of a night.

Those present at last night’s Borough Council meeting were the Mayor (Mr. M. E. Perreau) and Crs. J. Ross, R, Rangiheuea, €. Rand, D. R. Balrron, A. Crowe, S. E. Cowley and F. Robinson.. Apologies for absence were received from Crs. R. J. Thompson and F. Luc insky.

A deputation consisting of the Mayors of the four chief cities is to ■wait on the Prime Minister next Thursday to urge that somle better adjustment be made in the method of granting subsidies to local bodies for the relief of unemployment. It is considered that further assistance should be given so as to « )- ver the amounts which have to be found for cost of material.

A car driven, bv a. local lady driver, nearly came to grief in front of Mr. Matter's shop in Main iSfc. this .morning'. The vehicle was pulled smartly into the kerb in front of the char-a-banc, which had just arrived from Palmerston North and the occupants had just stepped out of the car, -which had been stopped a few feet from the gutter when it ran forward and jumped u,p on to 'the footpath. Fortunately it did not have sufficient- impetus to reaich tire plate glass window otherwise serious damage might have resulted. With the assistance of a bystander the car was pushed back on to the l'oad undamaged.