IN THE NEWS.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 409, 16 April 1937, Page 4

IN THE NEWS.

NT ERMEDJ ATE SCHOOL. C-tbintL has approved of a grant for the purpose of acquiring a site for a new ini ermedlai e school at Ponsonby, Auckland. WELLINGON’S FINANCES. A surplus of £8584 in the city accouii'ts. for the past financial year was ..nm.unced by the Mayor, Mr. T. C. X. Hislop, at a meeting of th& Wei . ngton Chy Council last evening. It was a result, he said, wh.|h the ‘.ouncll would receive wi h satisfacion. Rates had come in extremely a ell. COUNTIES’ AMALGAMATION. The Stratford County Council decided at to-day’s meeting that as many councillors as are available .-attend the meeting of county council representatives at Haweia n xt Week when the Minister of Internal Affairs, Hen. W Parry, will explain the general principles of the proposed Amalgamation Schemes Bill and will announce his tentative scheme for the Taranaki district. PARALYSIS EPIDEMICS. Two major epidemics of infantile paralysis occurred in New Zealand during ;he period 1914 to 1935, as well as subsidiary outbreaks of ‘l'h 1 disease, states /the Abstract of StaTisl ics for March, which gives a survey from public hospital records of the incidence of the disease in pas'L years as a preliminary guide to a s' udy of its recurrence toward the end of la:; year. Th? most virulent ou.!breaks were in 1916 and 1925, with

• GEORGE V MEMORIAL. [ A sum of £2O was voted by the | Stra ford County Council at. to-day's meeting to the King George V Memorial .fund for th:?, establishment- of ' health camps. DRIVERS’ LICENSES INCREASE. The total of drivers’ licenses issued I exceeded all previous years’ figures, . i stated Mr. S. J. Cuff, County Inspecs ! tor, in his r port 10 to-day’s meeting j of the Stratford County Council. ■ 1 STRATFORD JUNIOR TEAM. S. ra-fiford Juniors to play Unit/od , Juniors at 1.30 p.m. to-morrow are: Pollard, Hardy-Jones, Harkness, Tubby. Cuff (2), Jackson K2), H. Lampsliire. W. Collins, Dickson, Charlton, Kemslcy, Anglesey, Bourke, ! Eagar, S e, Demchy, Crichton. M ‘ 1 I TWO DEATHS A DAY. I “There are two deaths in Sydney’s ’’ | ets every day on an average, and for every person killed by traffic ’here are some injured,’’ said Mr. 1 Eustace Russell, an Invercargill soli"or, who returned to New Zealand from an' Auii ralian holiday by the | Wanganella. The speed of motor tra r j ffic in the busiest streets amazed I iim, he said. s ' PARKING STATION. A start h 's„ been mad?' preparing s or the erection of .he new £ll,OOO f | milking station rhat is io be built |on the empty s > c i on between the a ■ Aven Theatr, and the Clarendon Hotel o| s ates /he Chris church Star-Sun. t Providing ion for 140 h ! cars, the s'a'tion will relieve the pro-