Palmerston Doings.

Free Lance, Volume XIX, Issue 1029, 17 March 1920, Page 29

Palmerston Doings.

Dbab Chbistabel, — 'f 1 1HE much-talked-of Trams versus • 'Busses and good roads question. i v ias come to a definite issue. A vote is to be taken to raise an additional £100,000, which has been found neces.sary in order to finance the tram and ■electric light scheme, and ■ t'iie Tramites are pressing iheir point of view. The good-road-motor-'bus advocates liave now banded themselves into a ,-concrete organisation, and so the fight is on. : ■Z * . zi- * • The Tramites point to all the other ■towns in . New Zealand which havetrains alnd have prospered, appealing tp the poor man for his. support, as he has Sib ; motor car., The 'Bus buzzers quote tbe opinion of practically every man,who has recently been abroad, for he comes back converted to mobile traction as : being 'the acknowledgedcoming mode, .the overhead trains having served their day. ■K- vi -* ■. * ' There, is every evidence that Palmerston is in for a very good scrap "during the next couple of weeks. The inconsiderate influenza has put our Anzac celebration for the Prince out of the question, and our Royal hour' will be filled in with a- ijiarch. . past " ■of school children and' returned soldiers, not forgetting the inevitable " prominent citizens." The sports ground: and Esplanade will be the ren- . deavous.. ' -*• *• » . Up she goes! Bread, milkj coal andi anything , else in sight have climbed another step on Jacob's ladder of living. The tea-room people are {talking of putting up the price of afternoon tea. ■ It is the cup of tea people really want, ..- so why not cut out the fancy cake and substitute thin bread, and butter and .... sandwiches? ■ They could then'afford to V keep the pri6e down. . Disloyalty and ultra-patriotism . are . sometimes hard to distinguish, and that'is ihow we so often misjudge our neighbours. At the close of the Chautauqua season, one old lady- refused to stand up for the singing of " God Save . the King." Her friends persuaded, ' remonstrated, and threatened, but it . "was. of no avail. " I won't stand up for itr-I'll never .; stand up for it ■ again,-", she said stubbornly, "because the King has let the 'Kaiser o£F without hanging him " ■ ■ * # •* -stMotors and cyclists came into violent, contact here_| during the week-end, and one pretty jjjirl. had her face badly cut as well as other injuries, as th© re-' suit of being.- knocked off her. bike by , a car. In another case an old''lady of £70, who was cycling,, went. down .before a ear, and was rather seriously damaged. * . ' ■" ■. . * i The Hospital Board was considering raising the patient's charges from 3/6 to 6/- per day, some members deemmor this time t>f universal rises an opportune one for. going up. Dr. Whitaker considered as the poor people were having a very difficult time to make ends meet. So the question , Ijas been left for the Conference, with a. view to making a uniform charge throughout the Dominion. ■ V ' 1 : Mr Gifford Moore 3 one of our leadlnJS solicitors, is at present in hospital, •where he recently underwent it kerious .operation. He is makiifg a good recov- " «ry.. - . . * ' * * V Dr. A. B. Pitt, with his wife and laimly, we.re m Palmerston this week. • fitt is an old Hish School Boy, S? tt from here to graduate at xhe. University.- He has, been away nine years m France, South Africa, and Alei bourne, where he has been engaged m research work. * ' ■ - * . . -X- * • -Melville is beating up the Wellington Military District, and getting everything in train for the Pgmce's visit. * # *■ * Lady Chaytor, who has been. accompanying the Major-General on his tour of inspection, is home again. ■. - ' : * ...- * * Mr Tom Childa, Mine Host of the Commercial, is a great lover of flowers apparently } but the rose he cut in the Square" garden cost him £5. It's enough to turn .any man into a vegetarian. Awavttsi. .