MANAWATU

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7024, 12 January 1910, Page 7

MANAWATU

PALMERSTON NOTES. FROM OUB OWN CORRESPONDENTS. PALMERSTON, January 11. Hr and Mrs G. H. Bennett left Palmerston yesterday on a holiday trip to Rotorua and Auckland. Mr L. Hanlon, an old resident of Palmerston, who has been living for some time in Wellington, has returned to this town to reside. Mr A. C. Mathieson, manager of the. local branch of tho Bank of New Zealand during Mr C. Smith’s absence in England, leaves Palmerston to-morrow. He will spend a fortnight's holiday in Auckland prior to resuming his duties. A boy named Minogue met with a very nasty accident here. Ho was playing .with some companions when he ran a rusty nail into his eye, which was gouged right out and dropped on to the ground. Treatment at the hospital has healed the wound, and saved the sight of the remaining eye. Ths following paragraph appears in Mr Maurice Cohen’s circular letter to the Eairanga County Council, one cf the local bodies of tho district winch he reipresenits an the .Wellington 'Harbour Board, in connection with the coming election in February; —"The one great .blunder, to my mind, has been the cock. I have sought every opportunity of trying to find some way out whereby this huge expenditure and monstrous error could be obviated—so far without success. But if ever an opportunity occurs in the near future, as I believe it will, to stop, or even to postpone the work, it wilt be my utmost endeavour to do go. It is unnecessary, and must for many years to come prove a white elephant, and in this alone, I am informed, there will bo a loss of- between ,£17,000 and .£20,000 a year. It is extremely hard that this should be visited jbo any extent whatever upon the producers in this country.”