GENERAL NEWS

Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 7134, 4 February 1930, Page 6

GENERAL NEWS

Eleven head of stock were impounded off the Palmerston North borough streets during January, returning in fees £1 4/6. David Jarman, aged eight years, a son of a Hororata farmer, died yesterday as the result of burns received from a bonzine explosion. The Palmerston North Borough Council last''evening decided to donate one ton of coke to the Children's health camp, which starts at Awapuni lyAt the Palmerston North session of tko Supreme Court, which opens to-day there is only one criminal case set down for hearing, the charge being false pretences. The Palmerston North Borough Ca«acil intends to defend the action beiag brought by W. J. Frew, who is claiming £9l 2s 6d damages as a result of a collision with a tree in-Cuba street. Railway traffic has been very heavy during tho past three days, a fact which may bo attributed to large numbers boing bound for home, in preparation for the reopening of the schools. A motor car belonging to Colonel Standish, of Broadway avenue, was taken last evening from the parking place in George street, whore it had been left during the picture performance.

"Thero is an undoubted need amongst tho children of Palmerston North for a paddling pool," remarked the Mayor (Mr. A. J. Graham) during the course of a discussion at the Borough Council meeting last evening. Cr. C. N. Clausen's suggestion that residents of Palmerston North should be allowed to construct culverts of wood, as an alternative to concrete, was voted upon at last night’s meeting of the Borough Council and lost on the casting vote of the Mayor. The following stock was slaughtered at tho Palmerston North abattoirs during January: Cows, 236; heifers, 51; bullocks, 93; calves, 34; sheep, 1428; lambs, 318; pigs, 1793. Stock condemned: Cows, 8; bullocks, 3; sheep, 3; pigs, 34. Fees received: £294 19/-. According to the official census returns just made available by the Government Statistician, the population of Palmerston North borough, excluding Maoris was: 19,490 on April 1, 1929. The population including Maoris, was 19,535 and including the urban area, 21,280. Mr. L. A. Paish, H.M. Trade Commissioner for New Zealand, will address tho Citizens ’ Lunch Club to-day on "Some Aspects of Em|pire Trade." Mr. J. A. Nash, M.P. for Palmerston, will preside, and Mr. M. H. Oram, president of the Chamber of Commerce, will move a vote of thanks.

S‘Wg in Ulster took steps to see we were not kicked out of the Empire and if necessary, we would do it all over again; from what I have seen, New Zealanders would do the same as Ulster if they had to," said Viscount Craigavon, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, when replying to a civic welcome extended himself and Lady Craigavon yesterday, by the Palmerston North municipality.

Victor James Jamieson, at present serving a sentence of 18 months for theft, was brought before Messrs. W. G. Ashworth and G. H. Espiner, J’sP. at the Palmerston North Court yesterday to answer a further charge of stealing stocks and dies from Wm. John Barlow at Otaki on September 23. Accused pleaded guilty. SeniorDetective Quirke stated that the offence was cv.'.o of a series for which prisonor v s already serving a sentence. Tho Court's sentence on the present charge was one month’s gaol, to run concurrently with that he is already serving. When C. A. Parkins was charged at the Palmerston North Magistrate’s Court yesterday with cycling on the footpath in Grey street, he claimed the same privilege as a motorist who has to cross tho footway when entering the street from a private residence. The circumstances were that he used a vacant section between Queen and Grey streets as a short cut and had just got onto the footpath when tho traffic inspector stopped him. The latter explained to tho Court that when using the short cut, cyclists invariably rode a chain along the footway to the nearest culvert, instead of dismounting and walking across to the road. Complaints had been received of the danger. The Bench inflicted a fine of 55., with 10s. costs, as a warning. A further complaint of tho offensive odour rising from a pool at the corner of Victoria avenue and Church street, was voiced by Cr. M. A. Eliott at last night’s meeting of the Palmerston North Borough Council. He asked that the nuisance be remedied. The Mayor said it was news to him that a nuisance still existed, as the person who had blocked up the water course had taken steps to pipe the outlet. The trouble, ho thought, had been aggravated by children paddling in the water and stirring up tho mud. The engineer stated that the pipes that had been put iu had been laid on the level which had been decided upon for the continuation of the concrete conduit, which at tho present time, had only been constructed as far as Eitzherbert avenue. The creek bed above the pipes was apparently on a lower level and would have to be filled in.