NELSON NEWS
(Special to. "Tim Evening Post.")
KELSON, (ith December. The Nelson City Council met on Friday. An oifcr to sell land for a site iot a municipal theatre was referred to th? Mayor to inquire further into. The engineer irf to prepare plans for dressingsheds at the Lands Reserve, as an alternative to those pceparcd by Mr. Hurst Seager, these being considered too elaborate. Three tenders were received for filling in King's avenue, a low-lying locality at the back of the railway station. The engineer is to report with a view to tho council carrying out the work. Authority was given for the payment to the Railway Department of £28S 13s, the council's ."hare of the cost of the Anncsbrook crossing overhead bridge.
The annual meeting of the Stoke Progressive Association elected Mr. Geo. Jlacinuhon president, and Mr. H. Pickup vice-president.
The new fast train service inauguratedby the Railway Department commenced, this morning.
An old Nrlscm sctiler passed away on (Saturday in the' person of Mrs. Anniu Lane, tit the .-igo of 87. The lute Mrs. Lane Ciiuie to Nelson in tlie Fifcshire in ISI2 with her parents, Mr.-and Mrs. Bird, her mother being (ho first white woman to land on Nelson soil.
The demand for pig-iron in Britain is so heavy that the North-East Coast icon-' masters have disposed of the whole o£ their output for a considerable tkae ahead.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 137, 7 December 1926, Page 4
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232NELSON NEWS Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 137, 7 December 1926, Page 4
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