JOTTINGS FROM WANGANUI.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 800, 25 April 1910, Page 7

JOTTINGS FROM WANGANUI.

.1 1 " ' . .1 GROWTH OF THE BOROUGH. durietown to be added. ■ ■ — . Te 'eeraßh.-SDtcial Oorrcnuondent i Wanganul, April 23. meeting of the Goavillo lire Brigade, the report and palance-sbset showed, a very..satisfactory, position. The election of officers resulted, in tho promotion of Lieutenant to -the position .of captain, wiiile - J; oreman Arnold has ' been ' apl pointed lieutenant. ,

, Ihe AVanganui .Cricket Association v '..us ■ resolved in -favour of professional being, allowed to play in PlunI »eti bliield: matches. :-. A public, meeting is to be'. held next Wednesday to arrange for a fitting en- . sertainment for the - Governor, .on'. the occasion of his farewell visit* to this district on May 14. The annual Wanganui Christian Conlovn ls . this -year from i - special speaker S 1 " M'll'am Bradley, of the I ■Egyptian Mission. . : -

Durietown will bo the next.suburb to be added to the borough of-AVanga-unless objections are lodged within the month (of which there seems: K). be little possibility) the incorporation will,-. be formally gazetted aioufc the end of May.- .. The amalgamaSt- John's Hill,, Arainoho, and ■Uurietown with the borough means an addition to the population of the latter ;of;.2000 lo 261)0. ' i

.The Jrst, working boe of the Beautilymg Society,was held to-day, when a good;, afternoon's, work .was put -in in • c -from- the face el Dunes Hill, v.'hich it is .proposed So plant' with Dowers aiid shrubs.'