NELSON NEWS

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 31, 6 February 1935, Page 6

NELSON NEWS

* VISITING MOTORISTS

WHITE BUTTERFLY PEST

(Special to the "Evening Post.") NELSON/February 5.

The Automobile Association (Nelson) has decided, to notify the South Island Motor, Union.that,j,t is the wish of the Nelson Association to revive the discussion on'the'adoptjon of the "Admiralty" rule" in respect of collisions on land at the next half-yearly meeting. Dr. S. >A Gibbs, president of the association, reported %h?X the City Council had agreed to cany out lmpiovement^ at the reservoir camping 'ground, Winch had produted £65 revenue last year The secretary stated that the^'number of motorist visitors to the district "during the holiday period showed a large increase on last year The visitors had come from all parts of the Dominion and many from overseas. To date there had been 26 calls on the free road1 service/ One Canterbury and one Otago - motorist' had availed themselves,of the service.

The Nelson Education Board has acted upon the authority given by the Minister of Education to open the schools for mornings only during.the warm weather conditions at piesent prevailing. The school hours this week will be from 9 a.m. to 12.30 p.m. each day, and the position will be reviewed at the end of the week A verdict that deceased died of bead injuries accidentally caused when riding a motor-cycle which collided with a verandah post was returned by the* Coroner,. (Mr. T. E at an inquestMnto the death-^of James Vernon Taylor, * aged 19, .who was killed m an accident in Bridge Street on Friday evening last Percy A. Varley, an eye-witness, said deceased was travelling at between 30 and 40 miles per hour when he appeared to lose control swerving across the road into a verandah post. ' Reports received from the country districts indicate that the?;/white but-, terfly has become well established on the :"\ Waimea Plain, especially at Appleby Quite a number have also been seen in the city area; during the past few weeks Efforts are now being made to have some of; the parasites liberated which are being-distributed |by the Department of Agriculture, with a view to preventing the/ pest from becoming numerous enough ta^cause damage in this district. ■<-, ' At a meeting of the Nelson College Council of Governors the secretary reported that there were indications of a considerably increased enrolment of boarders at both colleges this year The actual number will not be known iintil the schools reopen}',