JOTTINGS FROM WANGANUI

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 837, 8 June 1910, Page 3

JOTTINGS FROM WANGANUI

WELL-CONDUCTED HOTELS. . (By Telegrajih.—Special Correspondent.) Wanganui, June 6. All hotel, wholesale, packet, and wine licenses wero renewed at the annual meeting of tho Licensing Committee today. The police and Health Department reports in all cases were favourable—a fact upon which the chairman of the committeo congratulated all concerned, especially as exhaustive inquiries had been made in -all cases.

Residents of tho township of Maxwelltown, sixteen miles from Wanganui, are very indignant at the fact that telephone connection with the township has been cut off on Sundays, after they had enjoyed this privilege for many years. The district contains 200 people, all of whom' are dependent on Wanganui for medical assistance, and as this is frequently wanted, it is felt that tho disconnection is likely to inflict .unnecessary hardshipMuch regret is felt in the Kauangaroa district, Wnngaehu Valley, at the death of Mr. David Nichol, who was kicked by la horso a few days ago. He was brought in to the Wanganui Hospital, but the shock to tho system proved too great, and in spite of medical enre he died 'on Saturday evening. Deceased was aged 29 years. 1 Wanganui, June 7. The Beautifying Society, which recently undertook renovating and preserving th'e historic Kemp's Pole at Ruorihia on tho Wanganui River, has made a start with tho work. Complaint is made by the loca! health authorities of the way in which the provisions of the Public Health Act, requiring tho disinfection of the' dwellings wherein there have been cases'of infectious disease, is being ignored by householders) and owners of houses in Wangamii. The nurses of Wanganui'District Nursing Society liavo arranged to give u series of health lectures to women in different imlls throughout the town during the next three months. Owing to the amalgamation of St. John's and Aramoho witli tho borough the Waitotara County Council, under whose jurisdiction these subucbs former.*.]

ly weTo, will have about .£IOOO less revenue this year than last, though this be. counterbalanced -by the lesser expendi- ' ture which will be necessary. A discussion on holidays took place at tho Waitotara County' Council's monthly meeting, this discussion arising out o'f a complaint that some of the council's employees had been kept at work on the day. of King Edward's funeral, and also On King George's Birthday. In 1 regard to-the complaint the foreman stated that he was ill in. bed on the former occasion, but communicated with every employee whom he possibly 'could, and all -but .two in tlio backblocks. ceased work. Tho foreman'.-) explanation accepted as satisfactory, The chairman, speaking about holidays generally, said it was an eternal mix-up concerning them, and he was glad to seo . that ,'the -Minister of Internal Affairs was moving to liuve holidays systematise. A half-holiday was no good to a man in the backblocks, 'who could only stick his pick in the ground, sit down, and light his pipe. It would be better to give such men their holidays' all together at a time when they could make som'S use of them. The council resolved to give a full day's pay to those men who had not worked on the occasions referred 10, and to grant an extra holiday to those, who had.