PUBLIC MEETING AT KUROW.

North Otago Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 6057, 20 May 1886, Page 3

PUBLIC MEETING AT KUROW.

19 (from a correspondent.) le x y A larcoly attended public meeting was \ hold at Goddard's Kur-w Hotel on Tuesa day evening last for the purpoßQ of deli viaiDg meana for tho establishment of n is medical man in tho dislriV. Mr J. An n Jeraon was Toted to the chair. He said d that thoy had met to try and supply a 0 long felt want In the district. He had it never lived In a district where a guamnb tea had to be given, but he had no doubt y some one in tho room would bo able to enlighten the meeting on the subject, Mr Raven Baid he quite ngreed with the remarks mado by the Chairman. The i district had Buffered through thore being no medical mm in it, nnd he saw no reason why a a\ibßtantiul guarantee could net bo given to induce a first-class medical r inun to come amoDgst them. i 3 After some fur:her discussion, it was 1 proposed and carried —That a committee 1 be appointed, Biibaoription lists opened at t once, and names taken of those present in tho room willing to become subscribers; and that the sum of 53 be paid down by each ono at ence towards paying preliminary expenses. For this last purpose L 5 was collected in the room, end a Btrong woiking committee was appointed to canvass the dieiricf. Mr Joseph Austin was appointed honorary secretary, and Mr John Orr treasurer, and a aura of Ll7 wna guaranteed in the rocm. The meeting then adjourned till Friday, the 28th instant, when all lists are to be in ; ihe next meeting to be held at Mr J. Molloy'a Terminus Hotel, Hakatoromea.

Some very funny items always crop up when a census is taken, and the Greymouth Star hears of one man cot a hundred miles away from Greymouth, who entered his sex as " not known," and in occupation column he put d' wn "married." In the column devoted to farming implements a man up the valley opposite the words threshing msc-hinc, entered f' my wife." (For continuation of IFeiog, see page 4.)