NOTES FROM CANVASTOWN

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 24, Issue 18, 7 March 1913, Page 5

NOTES FROM CANVASTOWN

(From our own Correspondent). Mrs Charles Cain returned home on Saturday af.er undergoing a serious operation in the Blenheim Hospital. Mrs Murray is able to get about a little now, but is very shaky, and by no means recovered from her accident. ' Mrs Sam Watson is spending a fortnight’s holiday in the Wakannrina with her son-in-law Mr Charles Nelson.

Mr Irvin Hart, who is at present in Victoria with his mother, intends leaving for New Zealand again this week. Peop'e in the village are wondering when the broken bridge over the creek in Stratford’s lane is going to be repaired. The secretary of the Pelorus Road Board promised to repair the bridge, which was broken by a traction-engine, some time ago, but so far nothing has been done and the people who use this road have to drive round the broken bridge with milkcarts every day, and a person ignorant of the block, may yet meet with a serious accident some dark night un less something is done to the place. The practice indulged in by owners of motor-bicycles of coming at breakneck speed down the incline off the Wakamarina bridge near the Canvastown Hotel is one which ought to be noticed and restrained by the police. If straying stock are a public menace reckless cyclists—especially of the motor variety—are a public pest en-i dangering the lives of women and little children* Sundays, day and night, are all alike to these gentry, who very often do not trouble .to carry a light. Knowing that there is no resident constable all the law-breakers in the land seem to congregate in the neighbourhood. The police pitch on one or two “to encourage the others ” as the French say, and then go quietly to sleep under a hedge and the local Justices dispense "Justices’ justice” and carefully fall upon the opposition milkman’s cows, while the horses and cattle belonging to those same J.P.’s are somehow invisible to the eye of the Jaw.