DISTRICT NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2017, 26 March 1914, Page 8

DISTRICT NEWS.

JOTTINGS FROM PROYINCIAL CENTRES. (From Our Special CorrespontleTlij J WANGANUI. § Frequent applications from business firms lor electric light and power, together with a prospect of the Wanganui East and Araiuoho North tramway esteusioHs having to bo lengthened,' is causing the Wa&gamii . Borough Council to. seriously consider the jaattar of materially enlarging its present power plant. The aiuiicil smi instructed its tramways engineer to draw up a report on the question. On Tuesday tJio ratepayers of W»* HQumi County Carried a proposal to raise their share of a loan of £2000 jointly with the Waiarirmo County Council to provide for mctaMmg a further ■ portion of the Parapara, Hoad™ the main highway. from Wangjnui to tljo interior.

PAUMERSTON. On Tuesday tb.e A, and-P. Asseciation received g. letter from the Shilrc Boris Society, Eaglaiid, renewing their offer of two silver medals for the be&t wgistersd stallion mare at the next show,

The A. and P. Association has renewed the lease of the showground to the .Defence authorities for another year. Tire Orehesiral Society .camp nearer to the realisation -of its desire for a rcdttctiou of th.o Opera House ohar.jos.at- tho council mooting on. Tctesclay after the council luitl received the deputation. After several comicilkirs had spoken in of j reduction a motion in that dircctiSa' Was put, but was evenliiiftSy withdrawii iu' favour «f tin instruetioii to the Opera Mouse Committee to consider the {jucstiMi of granting, tho s«■cicty an annual subsidy. meeting of . the. Ikfough Council did not receive Couiieillor Nathan's projrusa! for a refefciidHm to decide tho .citizens' opinion nf various tramway, -systems or motor buses. Sir. Nathan being absent through i>id.isp.csstion. Tlift council carried n motion by Ceuneillor Crabb thai tte Town Clerk .take steps for a poll respecting a loan of £55,000' for an Edi.sOtt storage system, su<?ti Joan to be for 33 years at not over 5 .per cent, interest, with a sinking fund of U per cent. A proposal.to raise n gasworks, purehas," loan trader the State .(j-uarantebd Advances Act was deferred. Tho Borough Council has agreed to •sapport tfe "fown Planning Associati<m's applic.'ifion far a G&verninmit subsidy of .C6OO.

Judgment on objections to the River Board's classification was delivered by Mr, yo.virton yesterday. Inter alia, he stated:—"To throw tic burden of costly protective works wholly of almost wholly on properties immeJiatetr adjoining the river bailk, tho values of which isavc teen vory-much, reduced by.' t-iio actios "of the river, 'WotiM ho equivakirt to saying such work would Hot bo findcrtakeu at all. It would be an impossibility to car;y • them out if a small number only had to .do this, just as it would bo hopeless! to- ; resist' ; a hostile invasion from a powerful neighbouring State-'if the defcii.ee, of .the territory imperilled uwu'c left' to tlie 'ihMJftanta of tko. imm«listA ijontier. opinion the whole borriiigb-'Of. .Ralru'erstoii North to. tlie' south 'of that low-Iyi-ag a.ioii. of a.tafafife i'uhitiiig rougMy parallrl with'Ferguson- Street is in danger. Ayiiero the river has done ijao'st ' mischief, ,near Fitzl-oy-Streset, the bank is low, and is being'iir.iekly washed away. As erosion proceeds . the liability _ to •floods wffi i-!ie.rea.?o- licbiMls© thei'e-is a. : ; clip from tho top of the bank a way. from iho strrara, Anp|li|r;'; f f6w chains' advance of the rirer and tlvo bank will, on account of this-dip, give a height of bank of only sis qt-flight , plis will mean that there will bb numorous floods beea'ns-e tho river will, at ordinary floods, flow through this opening into old lagoons., -.rhioh afford centini;<uis depressions from that danger spot to a place just above Jrtzhe.rbert Bridge.Mr. Poyntoii t-heft p.TDC.eedod to deal with specific objections. The firs brigade was practically useless at a fire- in Knowle Street on Tuesday night because only ail ineb wain existed.'' They therefore had. to watch helplessly while a liouso was burned to the'ground. It was owned and occupied by Mr. G. Olson.