PALMERSTON DAY BY DAY.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1131, 19 May 1911, Page 9

PALMERSTON DAY BY DAY.

(From Our Special Corresi.oiidcnU Palmerston, May 18. Tho director of tho local Technical School is endeavouring to organise a veterinary class in connection with the school, and there is prospect of success. It is understood there is a qualified veterinarian prepared to give- instruction n« soon as a class is formed. It is understood that the loca! branch of the Farmers' Union is prepared to render assistance in forming the class. The committee of the Mannwatu Bosing Association has under consideration a match between Arthur Kelly and "Sailor" Duffy. Two heavy-weights are also endeavouring to bring about a match. The Palmerston Literary and Debating Society opened the current season with a "social evening" at Dustin's, Ltd., last night, when,- notwithstanding the weather, there was a large attendance of .members. Tho president (Mr. M. Cohen) occupied the chair. During the evening musical items were contributed by Hiss Watson and Messrs. J. P. Moore, Fellows, Pees, and the Rev. Mr. Thomas, and impromptu speeches by Messrs. J. Robertson (on electioneering), M. Cohen (recreation), J. A. Nash (debating societies), and Rev. Mr. Thomas (on humour). Nine new members were elected. At its next meeting the question of trams will be debated, the leader for the affirmative being Mr. W. Park, and on the opposite side Air. I!. Gardener. The Oroua Lodge of Druids held a "social" last .evening, there being over fifty couples present. Bros. Robb ami Lynll - were JLC's, and Bros. Pago and Clarke were iu charge of the card tournament. The nrizes in .(ho latter event; were won by "Miss Woodman and .Mr. Watkins. : The Mayor-presided over a meeting, at the committee of the All Nations i'an (held some- time since, in order to urn vide funds for the erection of an annexe at the Palmerston Hospital for women consumptives). The chairman explained that, owing to circumstances which had arisen, they could not expend the whole, of the money raised at "the fair on an annexe, as the board could grant the sile originally intended for this purpose, and there was no other site available, so thiit the expenditure in the direction indicated would havo to bo im a much smaller scale than had been oi first proposed. Under tliefe circumstances there would be a considerable turn availfiblo for some other purnose,. and llie.T had been called together to si'f what should be dmw with . the. funds." Afl'er a considerable amount of discussion, it was l-Molved that the money should be devoted towards the erection and furnishing ot the annexe, and that the balance should be used for '.he nurnosp of assisting consumptive women," and that Board referred to the Hospital Thirty-four ncres of land belonging to ho Government at Terrnco End'are to be cut up into quarter-acre sections for workers dwellings.