NELSON NEWS

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 102, 4 May 1929, Page 7

NELSON NEWS

mt; cargo on karamka (From Our Own Correspondent.) NELSON, :inl May. The biggest genora! cargo ever brought to Nelson in one craft will be brought hero on Monday morning by the Shiuv, Savill motor vessel, Karamen. It amounts to 2350 tons. Tlio Kuramea will load 32,000 cases of fruit and fiOO meat ca.rcasses, also general cargo. Mr. R. W. Marslia.ll, of tho Government. Tourist Department, acccmyiaiiied by Mr. G. C. Black, M.P., -Motnclcn, yesterday visited the Ma mi;'- Springs and Cn.nnilial Gorge. A visit was jilsn paid to the route of the proposed mad over Lewis Saddle. Mr. Marshall was impressed with the Manila Springs, ami will report to the Government on how they could best be developed. For the Collingwood County Council elections only the required nominations have boon received for all of tho ridings, excepting the Wosthaven Hiding. The candidates are: Collingwood Kiding, Loui Flowers; Bainhnin Hiding, lloraco Skilron; Boekvillo Hiding, William Raby lUley; J'arnpavu lV\tling, .Fnlin Charles I'isli; Pnkawau Milling, Walter Solly; I'lipoiif;.-!. Hiding, Atlior- | (on IT. Fletcher; "Wcstliavrii" Killing, William Addison and John Richards. Bishop I' 1. Bennett, of tho Maori diocese, will arrive in Nelson to-morrow morning. He will be officially welcomed at tho Marsden Church liouso on Wednesday. ! Two of the Collingwood district's oldest residents passed away suddenly this week. They were Mr. Beniamin Millan, aged 70, and Mr. Kaby 1\ Hiley, of Hockville, aged 81. >' Mrs. Grace Fox, of Nelson, has been elected a "professional member" of the League of New Zealand Penwomen. The death occurred this morning of Mr. Frederick George Partridge, "\viio has been living in Nelson since his retirement from tho Railway Department a few years ago. Tho deceased was a keen member of tho Nelson Bowling Club. The Nelson Harmonic Society gave the first of the 1929 series in the School of Music last uight. The programme which consisted of a number of excerpts from Gounod's "Faust" and several miscellaneous items, was very good indeed.