WELLINGTON NOTES.
(SFXCIXL TO "THE FBESS.") WELLINGTON, April 20. The street fruit vendors who to-be up stands allotted by tih» Oity Council have ibeen co successful that tibere is a probability that mea* will, during tho coming winter, bo vended in the same way, except tdiat the carte used will, unlike the carts of the street fruiterers, ibe covered in. Tjlfero was very nearly a Borioue needdent on tlio Monawatu Railway line to a night train on. Friday. A niilo and a half north, of Otaki some railway sleepers had been placed across tho track. Luckily the obstruiotiion was noticed in time, and the train was .pxromp'tly jwilLed up, not, however, before the cowcatcher was damaged through coming in contact wirtlh the sleepers.
Two prizes —first £20, second £15— aro offered for deeigas for an official coart-of-arms for the Dojminion of New Zealand. j : John Arthur Bartrunn, , . M.So., has. been appointed assistant geologisb as from the Ist April, 1&08. Piao-adise ducts aro prototrted for one year from 25th in&b.
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Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 13095, 21 April 1908, Page 4
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