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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 27 August 1924, Page 9

The cable published yesterday with reference to the State troopers who are to form a bodyguard to the Prince of Wales while lie is in New York was inaccurate. The message, as it arrived, gave the aggregate weight of the four men as 1421b5, and as this was obviously wrong, “aggregate” was altered to and the figures were, made to read 14st 2lbs. The message should have given the. aggregate weight of the four men as 842. The prevalence of diphtheria in the laranaki, Wellington, Palmerston North, Wanganui, Nelson and Cook districts is responsible for an increase in the infectious diseases notified in the Wellington health district for the week ended at noon on Monday. Thirtysix cases were reported, as compared with 25 for the previous period. The returns from the Taranaki hospitals are: Taranaki, diphtheria 10, enteric fever 1; Stratford, pneumonia 1; H.'iwera, diphtheria 3. The opinion was expressed at a meeting of the No. 8 District Highways Council at Wanganui, yesterday, that the Municipal Corporations Act 'should be. amended to restrict- traffic licenses and plying for hire from operating within five miles of a citv or borough boundary as at present, ft was pointed out that in plaaes like Fit ha m and Stratford it would result in overlapping. A motion was passed urging the amendment of the Act. It *wns further decided to forward a copy of the resolution to the other District Highways Councils urging supoort of the proposal. ~ ”

The chairman of the District Highways Council (Mr. T. M. Ball) stated at a meeting of the Council yesterday (says the Chronicle) that the High wav's Board had agreed to subsidise maintenance of the main road through Patea on the same terms as other roads, hut would not agree to subsidise construction works. Any traffic thro’ugh a borough, if only for a short distance, was looked upon as through traffic. The remainder should be looked upon as local traffic. A borough would have to make out a very good case before being entitled to a subsidy on construction.