LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 10 December 1918, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Phmket rooms, which have been closed during the epidemic, are re-open-ing to-morrow. A special meeting of ffie New Plymouth branch of the Red Cross Society w convened for Friday next at 230 p.m. The rooms, in King Street, ,7IU fee open all day on Friday to receive bubseriptions, Members of the Christchurch Tramway Union rejected the board's offer made at the recent conference. Another conference will be held soon, when the union proposals will be laid before the board—Pi ess Assoc. Eeplying to Mv, Heed, -Mr.- Massey stated m the House of Representatives yesterday that he did not think there was much wire in the hanffs of the authorities that would be suitable for export to the Dominion. The bandmaster of the Citizens' Band (Mi. 1< W. C. McLeod) l, as decided that, as some members of fch* Junior Band are stiU suffering from influenza, the practices will not be removed until after the holidays. A Hawera press message reports that on Sunday, a he.ayy ga i e an d thunderstorm, accompanied by forked lightning, swept South Taranaki. JCxcept some line ntses and a telephone post in Hawera, which, was struck, there appears (o huva -been, no'damage. Shortly "after 11.30 o.n Sunday night a sharp earthquake was experienced." at Ha warn. . Th.tf University Senate announces that, having been empowered imde? the War Legislation Act, of tFw session to suspend temporarily■„ the. governing .students desiring to en tar examinations,, has, decided to cpnsidey the case of any student who ,niay,,iiave been subjected to hardships through the influenza epidemic prejudicing work i or. the November examinations.—Pres3 Assoc. Speaking on the Public Works Estimates, Mr. C'A. Wilkinson (Egmont) urged that the -work of completing the (Vnmake railway should be expeditedBy so doing a good deal of employment would be provided for returned soldiers. He also suggested the hastening of the work of connecting Taranaki with the Main Trunk line. The completion of the line would be of national importance, and he hoped the Minister would impress upon the Government the need for its speedy execution.—Own Correspondent. The question of insanitary houses in the borouah was referred to in a letter read to the council at last night's meeting. It wns pointed out that he council had no power to remove any place oil had no pc>wer o remove any place that might bo declared unfit for habitation. Cr. Short said he believed some places which had been condemned 20 yoars ago were still being occupied. He understood that in Ohristchnrch the Fire Brigade simply went along and minted down condemned places. The Mayor stated that such action could not be to'.-T with nut minority. Municipalities had m> power to destroy condemned place*.