MANAKAU NOTES.

Otaki Mail, Volume 26, 2 June 1919, Page 2

MANAKAU NOTES.

(From our own Correspondent.) On Wednesday night last Mrs Hammond's shop premises, Manakau, were broken into, and a considerable quantity of goods, comprising frnit, cigarettes, etc., valued at about £5, stolen. This kind of thing has been altogether too, common "in Manakau, and it is to be hoped that tho culprit will be detected. The matter is in the hands of the police. Mr W. Dalzoll, by advertisement elsewhere, offers £2 reward for information leading to tho detection of the guilty person. Mr AT. Dalzell has just returned to Manakau, after spending some little time in tho Auckland district.

Mr Knight has disposed of his farm at Manakau to Mr J. Nicholson, our local resident. Mr and Mrs Knight have been excellent settlers, and will be very much missed from the district. They will not be leaving for about three. months, I understand.

Lance-Corporal*Horn and Sergeant "Dick" Gore, who returned home by the. Pakeha, reached Manakau on Saturday morning, and were accorded a hearty welcome home. Mr Howard Andrew (chairman of the Patriotic Society) expressed the citizens' welcome in a few well-chosen words. (Sergeant Goro was accompanied by his mother (Mrs.lnge), and Mr Inge. The returned men will be accorded a. public welcome home on Thursday night, when a good gathering is expected at the publie hall.

Private Jack Fraser (brother to Mrs C. Cotter, of Manakau) is on a visit to this township, after a lengthy term of active service.

Mr W. Dalzell, our respected townsman, has just received tho sad news of the death of his brother, Private Alick Dalzell, which occurred at Salisbury, England, death being due to cerebral spinal meningitis. Private A. Dalzell had seen over two years of active service, during which time he went through some of the. biggest battles in France without a scratch. Much sympathy is felt for Mr W. Dalzell and other relatives. The deceased soldier was well and favourably known throughout this district.

yir Kofoed has just completed the erection of a handsome and commodious building, to the order of Mr W. Bcvan. A now business will shortly be commenced in the building, which is an acquisition to Manakau. Manakau residents will remember that the local committee set up to deal with the Tcecnt epidemic retained possession of a considerable sum of money sifter the settlement of account*, the object being to deal with any necessitous eases arising out of the epidemic. It appears that the Government requested that the whole of this money held by the committee should be handed over to them, and the Department held up payment of a host of accounts presented through the Palmerston N. Hospital Board, amounting to over £2OOO, pending a settlement of this Manakau matter. After going fully into tho matter, the Manakau committee decided to hand over the balance they held, in order to facilitate a settlement of affairs for the whole hospital district. The 3lanakau people were given an undertaking that any ease, of distress arising out of the epidemic will be met liberally by the Hospital Board.