MANAWATU

Evening Post, Volume XCIX, Issue 70, 23 March 1920, Page 8

MANAWATU

. PALMERSTON N., This Day. Somo idea of the mad rush there is for farms, and other properties, just now may be gauged from the fact that farms are often resold before transfer to the previous purchaser takes place. At Te Horo a 20-acre section, formerly a part of the Gear estate there, has been sold and resold four times since the Ist of last September. A man employed on the railways purchased this property eight years ago, when the Gear estate was first subdivided, for £45 10s per acre, and old residents of the district held up their hands in amazement-at such a price. Yet a retired carpenter from Wellington City soon came upon the scene, and paid the lucky railway man £70 per acre, and on Ist September, 1919, tho carpenter sold for £2300. A few .weeks later, it was sold again for £2450, then for £2600, and just a weekago for £2900. The last purchaser comes from Picton way. Mr. Arthur Way, the popular secretary of the Marton Jockey Glub, was in Palmerston North the other day consulting his medical adviser, and has been ordered a complete rest for at least a month. Different sections of the Palmerston North ratepayers are indulging in a big argument just now as to the merits or otherwise of trams and motor-buses. Mr. J. A. Nash, the Mayor, is the chief champion for trams. A poll is being taken to-day. The voting for and against trams will be very close, and it is difficult to foretell the result. OTAKI, This Day. Dr. and Mrs. PatersOn, who have been visiting Otaki, returned to their home at Pahiatua on Saturday. Mr. Crief Smith,, of Otaki, and .recently of the Moumahaki State Farm, left for Wellington yesterday to accept a position with the Fields section of the Agricultural Department. Mr. Huggins, of the Health Department (Palmerston North) and Dr. Farish, of Wellington, paid a business visit to Otaki on Saturday. Their visit was mainly to inspect the houses occupied by Chinese with a view to improving conditioas.

Clark M'Conachy, champion billiard player, on Saturday night played a match with C. Ross, of Levin, at Levin, and although he conceded 400 in a game of 700, won with ease. The visitor's biggest break was 178.