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(By TeleeraDh.-SDOcial CorrcsDondent.l :■'■■'■ Wanganui, March 10. The first of the visiting bands for the contest, starting, on . Monday,'" arrived, to-day: and were met at the station by a large number and formally welcomed by the ..Mayor.' All arrangements for the contest are well in hand and the indications are that, given fine weather, it will be a big success. .Bandsmen throughout the Dominion will be pleased to hear that Mr. James Cnehton, formerly conductor of the local Garrison Band, who has been in bad health for some time past, has recovered, and he has been asked to conduct the massed bands at the garden parry on Tuesday. ~, . One hundred and fourteen cases were treated at the local hospital last month, lucre were 24 operations under anaesthetics. Iho erection of the children's ward will relieve the congestion in the women's ward which has been-very notice" ablo lately. At the monthly meeting of the CUaiit?.i ? n ld , Board Mr Manningfon moved that the board protest against the proI vision in the new Act whereby country districts are grouped with the town districts, contending that the difference between the town boards' and counties' franchise gave the town districts an undue advantage. The motion was carried ; In connection with Mr. J. B. Williamson's death the statement that bloodpoisoning set in after the operation is not quite correct, as it was blood-poison-ing from which he was suffering when he first consulted the doctors.