MANAWATU

Evening Post, Volume CI, Issue 111, 11 May 1921, Page 3

MANAWATU

PALMERSTON X, 10th May. At a meeting of the Manawatu Gorgo Road Board of Control it'was decided to again placo before the Government tho desirability of granting tho.-board permission to placo toll gates on the road. It was explained that it was not proposed to advocate toll gates all over tho country, and that a separate Bill would have to be introduced in tho House referring only to tho Mana.watu Gorge-road. ' Tho general meeting of members of the Manawatu Agricultural and Paatorivl Association carried a motion , as follows: "That tho time has arrived in tho interests of stock breeders in Now Zealand, when a Royal or Championship Show should bo held alternately in the North and South Islands, and that tho Minister oi Agriculture ho requested to give effect to the resolution carried at the last meeting of tho New Zealand Council of Agriculture, when it confirmed such a proposal."

Mr. W. F. Durward has been appointed to fill the vacancy on the Palmerston Licensing Committee caused by the death of Mr. C. Dunk. :

At tho meeting to-day of tho Ka-iranga County Council reference- was made to the largely increased contribution by the ooonty to ths Hospital Bohrd, owing to iho recent revaluation of the county, and it, was resolved that tho attention of the Minister ■of Public Health be drawn to the gross unfairness of tho system of collecting levies based on valuations made at varying dates.