RANGITIKEI-OROUA NOTES.

Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 12881, 30 April 1913, Page 6

RANGITIKEI-OROUA NOTES.

TENDER AND RESIGNATION

IMMORTALISING A COUNCIL.

MARTON SEWERAGE WORKS

A RUBBISH RECEPTACLE.

MENACE TO PUBLIC HEALTH

£10 THROWN AWAY

A RUNAWAY IN MARTON

' (From Our Travelling Reporter.) MARTON, April 29. Owing to ill-health, Mr. H. F. Oldham has resigned the position <»f rii^-cr.-to. the* Marton Borough Council. The tender of A. Remnant has been accepted for €leaning the Marion. Opera Housed-

With a view to completing a phototraphic record of the largo works nnortaken by the Marton Borough Council during the present regime, it bas been, decided that the ietirin£ Council ■and Mayor have a group photograph taken.- ■.'■ : .<.■'.".

_Now that the Marton Borough Co-an-cil's sewerage works are eomp'eied the Council has decided to ci/o nc*ico to all property owners la the Boroiigli to connect with, the'sewerage.' 'Mr. W. Bickers, waterworks cvgmeer for Marton Borough, repoiT-sl to the Council last night that the w'dfcj"* in the dam now stood ai 26 feet, and appears to have settled and cleared considerably. It'appears that considerable quantities of rubbish likely to become a nuisance is being tipped into the disused gravel-pit on the left-hand side going down the Wellington Road, and the Inspector of the Public Health Department has notified the Borough Cotmcil that if the licensed carters continue the practice of emptying rubbish in "the place mentioned, a prosecution will follow. In the interests of public health there* must be .a.cessation. The matter Las been left in the hands of.the Borough Council foreman to deal with. Jrl Munro Wilson, surveyor, of Auckland, made a couple of trips to Marton in connection with the damaged dam, and submitted a report on same JLhia cost' the Borough £10 18s. 4d." Ihe account was regretfully passed for pavramit.

With a view to affording additional protection against fire at Marton Town .Hal!, the Council has agreed to purchase seven patent fire extinguishers. Jt as stated that «, settler in Raetilu last week dug 21 tons of potatoes per acre, which he soJd at £8 per ton an Raetihi.

The bugle competition at Oringi camp Jf Won by Bugler p. Lound with 07 point? out of n possible 70. A sennational runaway occurred yesterday morning, when 'ahorse-attached to a cart caused a little excitement in Mar ton The runaway belonged to a well-known settler of'Lpper Tutaenui It -appears that he was in Mr Williams' \ lctoria Bakery, making some purchases, when his pnir of houses started off. The leader 'broke away from the shafts at the offset and left the vehicle ' "to Ah© "shafterll' The--latter'animal careered,donrn Broadway its full length, when-it was plucSkily tackled, by'a eye-' list and-bl-OTight to--a standstill.- • -