LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19793, 17 March 1927, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Sixteen bankruptcies were gazetted during the month ending March 10. Of these ten were in the North Island and six in the South.

A London message states that the Lord Mayor of London’s public fund for the relief of sufferers by the recent Nottingham mining disaster now exceeds £30,000.

The following resignations were received at last evening’s meeting of the Wanganui Education Board: —H. Angland, assistant, Wanfj/nui East; A. S. Burns, head teacher, Makino Road; G. K. Hamilton, head teacher, Hokowhitu.

In response to complaints ?.bout the multiplicity of formalities on the arrival of overseas visitors, the Auckland Chamber of Commerce has been advised by the Customs Department that some questions in their existing form will be deleted and an amended form will shortly be in use.

A Wellington message states that Mr Alfred Seifert, flax-milling proprietor, states that, owing to restrictive regulations and the award of the Arbritration Court with respect to the rate to be paid for side-leaf cutting of flax, two milling companies in the Manawatu district will be compelled to close down during the winter months, throwing several hundred men out of employment.

A private message received in Wanganui states that the Wanganui rowing crews have arrived at Picton ready for the New Zealand championship regatta on Saturday. Both the Union and Aramoho crews are indulging in training spins. There are eight crews in the champion fours, ten in the champion pairs, three in the double sculls and five in the singles.

Good progress is being made with the erection of Spriggens’ Hotel, at the corner of St. Hill and Guyton streets. The brick walls of the structure, for which Mr A. G. Bignell is the contractor, are now up to the first floor. The now hotel is to be ready for occupation by September. It will be a threestorey building of modern design and will take over the expiring license of Chavannes’ JJotel.

James Hodges, who disappeared a week ago from Kaeke, returned on Tuesday about 2 p.m. to the mill in an exhausted condition and could give no account of where he had been, his memory being a total blank. Hodges, who is a well. set up powerful man, was quite thin. Yesterday he was improving, but had no recollection of how he lived during the past few days.

The order paper of the Wanganui Education Board meeting held last evening, although not a lengthy one, contained an extraordinary number of applications for grants for repairs and alterations to old buildings, and for new buildings and -additions. In five cases reports were submitted by the chief inspector and the architect regarding repairs, alterations and new buildings, while six applications for grants and four suggested alterations were received under the same heading.

At the monthly meeting of the Wanganui Education Board held last evening an application was received from the Tawhero School asking that the playground be put in good order before the coming winter. Last winter the playground had been a bog knee deep. With a school of over 200 pupils this was considered a most undesirable state of affairs. It was resolved to leave the matter in the hands ’of the chairman, Mr W. Collins, subject to a report, with power to spend up to £6O

At the Civil Engineers’ Conference in Auckland the report of the Council stated that the membership was 418. A total surplus of £3472, compared with £2989 in the previous year, was shown in the statement of accounts. Expenditure was £1033 and income £1516, the balance of £482 having been transferred to capital account. The committee of management of the benevolent association of the society reported that the total funds at December 31, 1926, were £905. It was decided to hold next year’s conference at Wellington.