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Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 59, 3 December 1926, Page 7

Wanganui store windows are displaying the latest in bathing attire, but as yet sales have not been brisk. One clothier remarked to a reporter to-day that until the time arrives for the actual wearing of the clothes people will not buy them. He said that bathing suits would not be sold in any large number until the bathing season commenced in real earnest, but once the hot weather set in there would be no satisfying the demands of the flappers. The reporter was shown some very pretty costumes for ladies,' the clothier remarking, “Some of these suits will never go near the water. Their wearers will be afraid of spoiling them.'” The river steamer Ohura, which, arrived at Wanganui to-day from up-river, experienced a rough passage for twenty miles back from Wanganui the usually placid surface of the river was lashed bv the prevailing gale, and the little vessel’s fore deck was constantly awash. Despite (lie state of the river the Ohura arrived here on time. Several tourists made the trip to Wanganui, but-they did not see the river in ideal conditions- ■ '

The difficulties that beset the pathof the rate collector of a local body are many and varied (states the "Marlborough Express”). It is not only the ' ratepayers who won’t or can’t pay his rates who causes trouble, for he is a tangible obstacle, and can be dealt with. The worst difficulty in connecting is in cases where the whereabouts of owners of property are not known, and it is amazing how many cases of this type are met with. The Marlborough County , Council has had an experience with this ; year’s rates which is by no means unusual, over 60 rate demands having been returned through the dead letter office i, owing to the addressee being not known at the address given, or having left the district leaving no address. The return of these notices entails a great deal of , extra work, the county clerk having to constitute himself a sort of private inquiry agent in his efforts to trace rate- u. payers.

The primary schools tn the education district, which embraces Marlborough, will close On December 17.