MANAWATU

Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 56, 8 March 1922, Page 8

MANAWATU

(IT TKMtORAPH.—SPHCIAI, TO TRI POIT.)

PALMERSTON N., 6th March,

At the Police Court to-day, William Brand, aged 18, and Clarenco Amos Wood, aged 17, pleaded guilty to having attempted'to break and enter the shop of David Walker Robertson, of Foxton, and wore, committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. , .

.At a. meeting- of 1 Sandon residents a motion was passed protesting'against the action of the Education Department in not erectingl a new school, as the present school is insanitary and in a state of decay. It was stated '. that if,' the ; Department does not take some action,'the'closing of the school" should be considered, so as to bring- matters to -a head. It was decided to ask the Minister of Education to visit the district so as to see the position of affairs.

. Tho staff of tho Palm-erston North Post and Telegraph Office held a. successful annual picnic during- the week-end at Thompson's Bush. Kairanga, when about 250 people were present. The corrimcrciaj travellers held their picnic at Ashhurst on Saturday, and the Long-burn Freezing Works employees held an out-ing' at Foxton beach on Sunday. The staff of H. L. Young and Co., Ltd., held a pleasant picnic on Saturday on the Awapuni racecourse.

At the meeting- (his afternoon of the Palmorstori North Licensing- Committee, tho chairman (Mr. Stout, S.M.) said that the commfttoe had instructed him to say that complaints had been received with reference to the quality of tho liquor sold in local hotels, it being stated that the class of liquor sold is not always that which is asked for. The committee-asked that inspections be mivdo with a view to maintaining the quality of the liquor sold, and the Senior-Sergeant intimated that this would b© done.

A pennant bowling 1 match, two rinks aside, betweon Terrace End and Levin, played on the former olub's green, resulted in a win for Terrace End by 47 points to 42.

A young girl named Farrelly was knocked down by a. motor c»r while crossing Broadway, *nd sustained a broken leg, necessitating her rotnoval to the hospital.