NELSON NEWS

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 85, 13 April 1929, Page 7

NELSON NEWS

CITY'S FINANCES

ELECTRIC LIGHT PLANT

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

NELSON, 12th Apvil.

. A credit balance of £180 3s lOd is shown in a statement of receipts and expenditure in the general account tabled at a special meeting of the City Council last night. In addition there is a store o£ metal at the quarry valued at £484. , .The municipal baths account is the only one at -present in debit. The credit in the electric light account is £3238 0s 6d. The. City Engineer said there wat £1500 worth of coal in stock in addition to the amount at this time last year. The Town Clerk . stated, in answer .to a question,' that when the present council came into office there was a credit balance of £250 in the general account, but over .£4OO had been transferred from the water "account to balance the' general account. The Mayor (Mr; W." J. Moffatt) stated that not a single transfer had to- be made this year. . '

Yesterday 13,000 cases of apples went to Wellington. . About 0500 cases jvere loaded by the Kaitoa at Mapua to-day, and the. Arahura will take about 2500 cases from Nelson to-night.

;'. Mr. W. Lock announced to-day that ho will contest the mayoral elections. Councillor F. W. O. Smith'has announced that lie will not be a candidate for t\\6 mayoralty nor for, the council. Councillor Wizzeir informed a. Press representative to-day that .in all' probability he. would not stand. * Many names of possible candidates are sgoken of, but none has< definitely' announced himself yet. Archbishop Redwood motored to Lake Eotoiti yesterday, and. expressed his admiration of the scenery en route, and at the lake. ' ■ ■ .

A grant of £250 to the Cawthron. Institute for research into the mineral content of pastures has been approved by the Minister in charge of the Department .of Scientific and Industrial Research, the Hon. H. Atmore. •■ ; ■

Mr. Geo. A. Lee, of Blair, Mason, Lee, and Brown, Auckland, is at present in Nelson. Mr. Lee is consulting engineer to the Onakaka Iron and Steel Co., Ltd., and he spent to-day at Takaka inspecting the pipe-manufacturing plant that is being added to the works. . ■

Maurice Harwood, of Motupipi, was admitted to the .Nelson Public Hospital with a fractured right arm, received yesterday, morning, when he bumped an approaching car on a corner.

The new electric light plant—a steam turbo-alternator —recently installed at the power house, took over the load yesterday after successful trial runs. The newunit is expected to meet the city's needs for the next seven .years, after-.which it is probable that extra boilers will have to be installed. ; , '•

At the monthly meeting of the Plunket Society the town nurse reported as follows: -Mothers and adults to the Plunket Rooms 247, babies 136, older children 22, visits to homes 111, cases under treatment 594, over one- year and 1 under care 445. ■, ■, t . .;, At the annual meeting of the Motueka Rugby Sub-Union' the following officers were elected for the ensuing yeai"—President, Mr. H. Manoy, (re-elected); vicepresidents, Messrs. L.^Drummond, E..-B. Stohv, and J. 'A. Askew; secretary, Mr. H. B. M'Glashen (re-elected); treasurer,/ Mr. S. J. Wilson .(reflected); auditors, Messrs. C. E. Sibson and S. 8.-Canavan; delegates to main union, Messrs.,'E. B. Stohr, L. Drummond and E.Sigley. ' Jt was agreed for this year to appoint three selectors instead of a sole selector as previously. Senior selectors, Messrs. A. D. Batt, L. Drummond, and E. Siglcy; junior and third-class selector, Mr. E. Reed (reelected); fixture committee, Messrs. G." 3?. Smith, E. 8., Stohr and C. Thpnison; emergency and permit committee, Messrs. G, F. Smith, E..8. Stohr, and C. Thomson; gatekeeper, Mr. D. Goodall; referees' appointment board, Mr. G. F. Smith.