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Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 303, 18 November 1930, Page 6

Close on £50,000 is to be spent in the erection of a hpstel for students attending the Victoria University College, Wellington. It was reported at yesterday’s meeting of the Palmerston North Hospital Board that patients to the number of 207 had been admitted to the institution during the month of October and that the average number of occupied beds had been 166.96. Patients to the number of 174 had been discharged, there having been 11 deaths. The traffic manager and the chairman of the transit committee have been appointed to represent the Palmerston North City Council at the conference of local bodies to be held on Thursday to discuss traffic regulations. The council decided last evening that the following suggestions made by the traffic manager be brought under the notice of the commissioner: —(a) That riders of motor cycles and riders of motor cycles with side-cars attached undergo separate tests; (b) that every driver of a motor vehicle plying for hire be made to produce a medical certificate before being issued with a new license; (c) that a small charge should be made in respect of licenses issued to persons residing beyond the city boundaries.

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There were seven degrees of frost in Christchurch yesterday morning. Thieves broke into the pavilion of the Otaki Golf Club on Sunday night and stole £5 in notes and silver.

The grand parade of stock at the Canterbury A. and P. Show, last week, was led by a Highland pipe band. It is reported that Mr A. B. Sievwright, of Wellington, will be candidate for the Otaki seat in the United Party’s interests next year. A new research station at Nelson, which will be the headquarters of the work carried out by the Forest Biological Besenrch Station, will be opened to-morrow. Several chimneys in the Bunnythorpe district are reported by the “Standard’s” correspondent to have been damaged by the earthquake early yesterday morning.

The assertion that he has travelled a million miles on the railway between Auckland and Frankton is made by Mr William H. Mathison, a news vendor, well-known in the AVaikato.

In his address to the Grand July at New Plymouth yesterday, Sir Michael Myers said that there were three serious cases, but no motor collision cases. This latter was his first experience since his appointment to the Bench.

Attention was drawn by Cr. Mansford at last evening’s meeting of the City Council to the condition of the eastern side of Main Street, the surface of which. Ire stated, was full of potholes. The engineer was instructed to attend to the matter. For thirteen vacancies on its teaching staff, the Nelson Education Board received 328 applications, the 6ame teachers in some instances applying for more than one school. For the position of sole teacher at a country school there were 53 applications. Owing to unseasonable weather the Municipal baths, which were opened yesterday morning, have not been well patronised. One solitary bather was present yesterday morning, but more swimmers appeared in the afternoon. With the advent of warm weather the baths will no doubt be as well patronised as ever. “I wish to express my appreciation of the treatment and attention I received while in hospital,” stated a letter received by the Palmerston North Hospital Board from a resident of Marton. “I feel very indebted to the staff and congratulate you on the very efficient and smooth running of this wonderful institution.”

A very mean theft was perpetrated at the Homan Catholic Presbytery in Invercargill recently, says the Southland Times, when some person helped himself to about 400 bulbs, the property of Rev. Father Howard, whose exhibits of seedling narcissi at both Milton and Invercargill horticultural shows have excited warm admiration. At a meeting of the Piako County Council, the chairman, Mr AV. It. Lowrv, said that the council had every reason to congratulate itself on being the lowest in New Zealand in the matter of administration expenditure. The proportion of expenditure to the revenue was 2.44 per cent. The average for counties throughout New Zealand was 5.32 per cent.

“AA'hat is the difference between an avenue and a street?” inquired Cr. Eliott at the meeting of the City Council last evening. The Mayor and Cr. Tremaine expressed the opinion that an avenue implied the presence of trees. Cr. Tremaine gave notice of motion to rescind the resolution passed some time ago concerning the naming of streets after Maori trees.

Regret that the Minister of Education nad given no decision concerning the location of the Dominion School of Forestry, was expressed at a meeting of the Auckland University College Council. At present both the Auckland University College and Canterbury College have schools of forestry, and some time ago, when a suggestion of eliminating overlapping by the establishment of one school tor the Dominion was made, both colleges agreed to abide by the decision of the Minister.

The reserves committee reported to tho City Council last evening that the Cricket Association had written in reference to the Manawatu Amateur Athletic and Cycling Club using the Sportsground and suggesting that the club be given the right to U6C the grounds on Monday, Wednesday and Friday evenings only, thereby not interfering with the cricket practices held on Tuesdays and Thursdays. It was decided to confirm the arrangement and to advise tho Amateur Athletic Club accordingly. To have a daphne plant uprooted and removed by some unauthorised person was the experience of a Christchurch resident recently, and the loss was all the greater as the owner had just arranged for the sale of the flowers to a city florist at a satisfactory price. The owner felt more than compensated, however, when she picked up alongside the spot at which the daphne plant was taken out of the ground a wallet containing £7 10s. This, she considers, may have been leit as payment for the plant.

A somewhat unusual claim and coun-ter-claim for damages, in that each of two motorists concerned in an accident declared that the other was driving on liis wrong side, was heard in the Eketahuna Magistrate’s Court recently, before Mr J. Miller, S.M- In his reserved decision, the magistrate analysed exhaustively the evidence given by the police and independent witnesses regarding skidmarks and the nature of the damage done to the two cars, but was unable to decide which car was on its wrong side. Each party was therefore non-suited.

The city engineer, Mr J. R. Hughes, reported to the City Council last evening that the whole of tho pumping plant in connection with the artesian water supply had now been erected and tested, and the pumps had been brought into use periodically. A decided improvement in the town pressure had been observed on the pressure gauge in the engineer’s office. The increase in pressure amounts to from 25 to 3olbs according to the time _of dav and the amount of draw-off. The well, pump-house and reservoir had been completely fenced in. A wirenetting fence had also been erected around the aerator pond.

The public have paid good money at Show time to seek freak animals of appearance less strange than that of a horse arrested recently by the borough poundkeeper, says the Poverty Ba'v Herald. The freakish characteristic of this animal is purely temporary, one would imagine, for it consists of "a coat of hair up to Gin. in length, which it is rapidly casting for the summer. Standing in the breeze, it presents a strange spectacle, with its luxuriant coat waving, and its journey to the pound was the occasion for much merriment among those who witnessed its passage through the streets. In moving a motion for authority to increase the bank overdraft up to £15,000, at last evening’s meeting of the City Council, the Mayor referred to tho fact that this year the rates were coming in very slowly. Mr Graham said that a number of the larger ratepayers had not yet paid their rates; 'in fact, there were 200 ratepayers who owed over £IOO each. As a result the council was now working on a small overdraft. It might be necessary at a later stage to increase the limit. He was in hopes that the larger amounts outstanding would come in before the end of the year. The motion was agreed to.