Old Gas Holder to Be Kept Intact

Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 44, 22 February 1938, Page 6

Old Gas Holder to Be Kept Intact

MAY BE USED SOME DAY IN SUPPLEMENTARY CAPACITY

The old gas holder tank removed from Cook street is to be kept intact by the Palmerston North City Council with a view to it being re-erected at a later date. In the meantime the crown of the holder and the bottom lift are to be painted. Reporting to the council on the subject, the gas manager (Mr. J. Learmouth) stated: “This tank was taken down some time ago and carted to the works. I should like to point out that the weakest link in our whola gas manufacturing plant is the holder capacity of the plant. The holder at present is in good repair, although it is patched in several places. I recommend the council to keep the tank intact, and at some later date erect same in a suitable site at the works. The tank can be put together again, as it is equal to new, and at the present price of .steel it is worth £6OOO without erection. A double lift holder suitable to go into this tank would hold 150,000 cubic feet of gas ”

During January 364 rations were issued to 52 cases throughout the Palmerston North Hospital Board’s district, as compared with 472 rations to 51 cases in January, 1937. In Palmerston North itself 263 rations were issued to 37 cases, the comparative figures in this case being 330 and 36 respectively.

“I don’t know whether it can be avoided or not, but the noise of ’planes flying over the hospital must be disturbing to the patients,” stated Mr J. Boyce at the monthly meeting of the Palmerston North Hospital Board yesterday. Adding that three ’planes had flown overhead while the board had been in session, Mr Boyce suggested that representations should be made to Union. Airways and the Middle Districts Aero Club. The managing-secre-tary (Mr A. J. Phillips) said he had discussed the matter with Union Airways on several occasions and he was satisfied their pilots were doing their best to avoid the hospital; they did not come that way; unless they were forced j by the wind.

Free passes on the municipal buses have been granted by the City Council to all crippled children attending regularly at the Palmerston North Hospital for treatment as outpatients. The Palmerston North City Council has decided to erect permanent floodlighting at the Sportsground, the work to be carried out with funds provided by the electricity department and refunded from the general account in the ensuing year.

A queue of people lines up at 5 o’clock on Sunday evenings for the 7 o’clock service of at least one Melbourne Church. The preacher is Rev. Irving Benson, who has one of the largest congregations in Australia and an even wider circle of listeners when his services are broadcast, as they frequently are. He is the author of “The Eight Points of the Oxford Group.” He will be heard from 2YA to-morrow night at 8 o’clock in a broadcast from the Methodist Church of N.Z. Conference in Wellington, and this is an opportunity of hearing an outstanding man and an eloquent speaker,