LOCAL AND GENERAL

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 7 May 1925, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The amount of hospital levy for which the Collingwood County Council is responsible for this year is £486. A printer’s error in last night's issue made the amount £786.

Hon. G. J. Anderson, after telling the members of the Wellington l hamper of Commerce what the Government was doing to advertise New Zealand, said hotels were going to reap tuo principal benefit, and they would b‘We to clean them up. It was no use asking people to come here without supplying the best accommodation. —Tress Association.

An important manuscript lias been added to Mr ,T. P. Morgan's collection of manuscripts and drawings by Ln&Jisli authors, now oil exhibition at Jhe Public Library, New York. Lt is that, of Robert Browning’s “A sol an do, which Mr Morgan recently acquired. There is more than ordinary sentimental interest in this manuscript, because it- is that of Ibe last poem which Brownnig ever published. lt came out in 1889, and apparently was written in that year. It was published in London on the very day on which Browning died in Venice. The garb of the meat porters at Smillifield Market, London, where much Australian meat changes hands, is under going a change in conformity with the demand for cleanliness in handling meal. Over the old-lime greasy smock an r:-l-skin cape is worn, and it is proposed to have an oilskin cap to prevent jurat carried oil the shoulder, coming in contact with the head. Perhaps gloves will come next.

“Now that the heavy traffic motor regulations have become law 1 would recommend that the Council immediately appoint a traffic inspector to regulate the traffic cm county roads, ’ reported the Engineer at to-day's meeting iif the Waimon Council.—Cr. Cordor agreed with the Engineer, 'there were many ways in which an inspector could pay for his salary. A good deal of overlapping at present tonic place among the various inspectors, and if some of their duties could be amalgamated it would be of benefit to the Council. He moved that the matter he discussed at to-morrow s meeting When the estimates were under consideration. Seconded by Cr. Wilkinson, and carried.

From being a sleepy Boor town cl 1.800 inhabitants. two hotels. throe garages, and a lew stores, Lydcnbu g, m South Africa, has become the mazy centre of a new “platinum rush." M is crowded with financiers, speculators, traders, and those “hard eases and prospectors who are the white nomads of Africa. Boers from the back veldt who. have scarcely handled cash in their lives now come into Lydenburg to spoo l money received for options on their farms. Instead of the £lO or £ls usually paid bv prospectors, options ha e reached £I,OOO. A final reminded is given of the Harmonic Society’s concert to be held this evening at. the School of Music. Selections from Gounod’s opera, “Faust,’ and miscellaneous items, will he rendered. The Orient liner Ormonde will make an unusual trip (his June. She will carry the party of pilgrims, including a number of distinguished soldiers and administrators who are to attend the unveiling of the New Zealand war memorial at Ghanak 11ahr —the first of the croup of memorials on the Gallipoli Reninsula. The parly will embark at Toulon on June 8. and proceed to Kolia—that lieach of gallant deaths and stark heroism. There on June 12 the party will land for the ceremony and an inspection of the cemeteries. If will he ashore nine hours, and the Ormonde will lie off meanwhile, and sail the same evening.

Owing to unsuitable weather conditions, it was found necessary to postpone tile ladies’ sailing race which the Aurora Sailing Club intended to hold last. Saturday, and which will now be sailed off on Saturday May 9th. as advertised. This will he the first, race the Club has held for lady competitors’ and should prove very exciting. Attention is* also drawn to the dance which the Club holds in the Oddfellows’ Hall on Saturday night.

By advertisement in this issue, it is notified that the premises oi members of the Soft Goods and Jewellers Association will close at- 12 o’clock, noon, on Saturday (Race Day).