Around the City

Manawatu Times, Volume 60, Issue 230, 30 September 1935, Page 6

Around the City

Paragraphs About People and Events Already ono or two of the earlier variety of the flowering cherries are in full bloom at the Esplanade. The main drive of trees should be in bloom in about a fortnight. <•> <•> <S> <3> Cecil Carroll, aged 10, a jockey, was admitted to the Palmerston North Hospital on Saturday from Otaki, where the Jlaori race meeting was in progress. lie is suffering from back injuries and his condition this morning had shown no change since he was admitted. <s> <v <v <s> The warm weather conditions prevailing on Saturday brought many out in the sunshine and the business area was thronged all day. Hundreds were on the playing fields and in one case it was possible to sec the unsual sight of soccer, cricket and tennis being played within a few hundred yards of each other. <*> <•> <S> <s> Saturday night was a gala night for '‘Sally, ’ l and in the final act (the wedding "at the “little church’ round the corner) an innovation was made when confetti and balloons were showered upon the company, and together with brightly-coloured streamers exchanged with the audience, provided an unforgettable scene.

A resident of Palmerston North for the past 56 years, who was a butcher and dealer, claims the distinction of being the first to prepare a Dominion sheep for freezing and sending Home, lie says that this was performed 57 years ago on .a station near Oamaru, and that the shipment went to England on the ship Dunedin. <S> <S> <S» <S> Bail was allowed and a remand granted until Wednesday in the ease of Ivan Leslie (alias Ivonhoo Hui L?s lie-Bieknell), a flu-year-old salesman, who appeared before Mr J. L. Stout. S.M., in the Magistrate's Court on Saturday charged with false pretences. It was alleged that accused obtained 15s from Sara Teresa Murphy by means of a valueless cheque. <s><•><»<?> Following the final performance of “Sally” on Saturday evening there was a striking tribute paid to Mr Fred Cousins, associate producer, on whose shoulders has fallen tho major portion of tho constructional work. Mr J. A. Nash, M.P., Voiced the society's appreciation of Mr Cousins' efforts, and the whole company gathered on tho stage to join in musical honours and .cheers. <s><s>❖-«> Knock-out finals in tho Manawatu Football Association's lower grade Soccer series were decided at North Street Park on Saturday. Convent (5) defeated llokowhitu (0) in tho prim-

ary section; To Awe Awe (4) annexed the fiftli-grado honours by beating I'.M.C.A, (0); while To Awe Awo (8) beat Y.M.C.A. (0) for tho fourth-grade trophy. The referees were Messrs J. S. Jenkinson, C. E. Downes and F. W. Ivey respectively. <*> <3> <s> <s>

City Council employees were occupied practically the whole of baturdav night on the city side of the I'itzherbert bridge on work that has to do with the connecting up of the newlarge water main across the bridge with the two smaller feeders that tiaverse the length of i'itzhcrbcrt avenue. As a result of the overnight operations, the water in certain quarters yesterday was milk-white as the result of aeration. <«> <s> <S> <s> Household gardeners are already viewing with dismay the appearance of the white butterfly, and the sunny weather experienced during the past two days has added greatly to the onslaughts of this pest. A 'Palmerston North resident, who claims to have used his protective method with success, urges the spraying of young cabbage and cauliflower plants with water in which cabbage has been boiled. Such spraying, ho contends, safeguards the plants from attack. <s> <t> ❖

Work is now in hand at the Palmerston North City Council’s electric power station at Terrace End in prepartion for the new Diesel generating plant, which is scheduled for delivery in January. Two new engines, each of 1400 h.p. (1250 k.v.a.) have to be accommodated, one on each end of the present bank of three 450 h.p. gas engines, so that finally live engines, with a total generating capacity of 3500 k.v.a., will be in position. Watercoolers and the platform on which they stood have been dismantled, and will bo placed outside tho building, while the compressed air tanks are to be moved to another position where. a foundation, with the necessary pipe connections, is being provided.

In conversation with a West Coaster, well versed in goldmining activities, a “Times” representative was informed that tho latest “boom” in the winning of gold is unabated. Small dredges are being established in many goulbearing areas and some good returns aro reported. The working of black sand deposits on the sea coast has also been a profitable undertaking and it is stated that two Old Country men won sufficient gold from an area at Ten-Mile (north of Greymouth) in six months to foot tho bill for a trip Home. Emphasis was stressed, however, on the fact that “new chums” should not be carried away with the embellished accounts of making “easy money.” To the inexperienced there is but a bare living in prospecting, and many who go out into the back country arc quite unsuited for the task.