LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 12, 14 June 1913, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The surveyors under Mr. Black, consulting engineer, are now engaged in , the preliminary survey work in connection with the tramway. It is expected > that the survey will be completed by the end of next month. A Press Association message from Tauranga states that a proposal to borrow £BOOO for drainage was carried by 97 votes to 38. This commits the borough to a total expenditure of £20,500 for street improvements, ■ electric lighting, and drainage. In future all teachers entering the services of the Wanganui Education Board must submit to medical examination, the Board having decided to this effect at last night's meeting. The decision was in consequence of many teachers having to obtain sick leave within a brief period of taking up duty. The committee which has charge of the billeting of the outside school children on Monday evening, in connection with the visit of the warship, state that the local school children have arranged to accommodate .ill who are coming. Therefoie it is unlikely it will be necessary to take advantage of the offers of the general public to billet children. Should, however, further accommodation be wanted, those who have offered to take children will be duly advised. How fires occur. A local resident ordered a nuantily of coke, which arrived late in the afternoon, and was stored in sacks in the usual place beneath the main part of the building and constructed entirely of wood. Towards evening the resident had occasion to go into the cellar and was surprised to find the place filled with smoke. She at once investigated, and discovered that one of the sacks of coke was burning, and with difficulty was got out and the fire extinguished. Tt appears that the coke in question was raked out of the hold at the manufactory, and damped with the hose, after which it was bagged and delivered. This is rather an unsafe procedure, and coke so treated in this manner has been known to smoulder for hours at a time. It is pretty certain that this ba<r of coke, must have been slowly smouldering from the time it' left the works, and had it not been observed in time, the consequence- may : have proved serious. Every man who likes a good smoke : should try Sweet Slice GOLDEN EAGLE i TOBACCO. Cool and sweet; it can't i burn the tongue, Try a tin. 3