LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 2298, 17 November 1925, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Forty head of stock were impounded in the Borough during October. Fees received amounted to £6 15/8. Mr R. A. Noedl, of the N.Z. Importing Co., has sold his fancy goods business to a. syndicate of Wellington and Palmerston business men.

The matter of Installing a new weighbridge in the Square is being held over by the Borough Council until next year’s estimates are considered. I ) The tender of Messrs Adler and Co. at £l4/10/- each, for installing rear escape doors in the Borough buses, has been accepted.

During high south-west winds at Nelson, a young pine plantation to the extent of three hundred acres on the Moutero hills was totally destroyed by fire.

The daylight main trunk expresses yesterday were very poorly patronised. About 25 passengers went north at 10.49 a.m. and 30 down to Wellington at 8.19 p.m.

Traffic returns show that the Municipal buses carried 3792 more passengers in October than .they did during the same month in 1924. The increased revenue was £37 19/2.

The Commercial Travellers’ Association intends holding a .Charity Day in Palmerston North on November 28th. The Borough Council last evening granted the Association use of certain roadways in the Square for its purpose.

Taking their cue from a recent paragraph in the “Times”, the Palmerston North Borough Council decided last night to have a traffic inspector on duty at the Esplanade on Sundays.

‘This report is like a lady’s letter,” remarked Cr. R. Edwards at the Palmerston North Borough Council last evening, when Sodden Street was under discussion. “There is a beginning and an end, but nothing in the middle of it.”

The . City fathers of Palmerston North are considering the question of allowing property owners to sub-div-ide long sections with a small front-, age so that two houses may he built, one behind the other, the rear house to have access to the street by means of a right-of-way

On the recommendation of Its works committee, the Palmerston North Borough Council is to seek advice whether It can frame a by-law compelling owners whp desire to erect shops with verandahs attached to set back the building to permit .or the verandah being built on the owner’s property and not across the footpath.

*T am going to grant this discharge frpm bankruptcy,” said His Honour, Mr. Justice Alpors at Napier on Saturday morning, when dealing.with a Maori bankrupt who wa s stated to be very lazy, "just to show my attitude toivards those Hastings shopkeepers who were foolish enough to grant such a man credit”

The Palmerston North Chamber of Commerce wrote to the Borough Council last evening suggesting that book and magazine bins be erected by the Council at the Railway Station, Post Office and the end of Rangitlkei street, In which the public might put used books and magazines for distribution to the different charitable institutions In the town. The Council agreed to try the idea at the Post Office.

Mr W. Milverton, In replying to the Borough Council’s appreciation of his offer of land at the corner of Fer. guson and Alexandra streets, for a park, states that possession will bo given on March 31, ,1926. When the work of laying out the area Is com. pletcd, he will donate ten seats to be placed in the reserve. The Council decided last evening to instruct the Borough Curator (Mr P. Black) to prepare plans for the,-laying out of the area, and to thank Mr Milverton for his further generosity.

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