LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXV, Issue 13058, 28 April 1910, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

There was a clean shout at the Police Court tins morning.

The latest addition to the Telephone Exchange is No, oati, airs Heard's residence, Durie Hill.

Air W. Kerr, S.M.. conducts a sittings of the Magistrate’s Court at Marten today.

The installation of the Mayor c f Vi an. ganui East, Mr J. Jones, is to uakc ph.co at 7.30 o’clock on Wednesday c.vi-i.ine’ next.

A Blenheim telegram states that William Tindall, an old and highly respected settlor, died at Springlands yesterday afternoon, aged 70.

The Wanganui East Borough Council has decided to recommend that the three new streets on the Nixon Estate be named Willis .Street, Lower Clapham Street and Sedgebrook Street respectively. The Town Hall at Wanganui l ast is io bo supplio dwith a gas-heater .and a leanto is to bo erected, in order io nulco the Hall more convenient for dancing Junctions. etc.

The State Guarantee Office has notified the Wanganui East Borough Council that a loan of 'A! 1800 had been refused, and that the application for a loan of J8275 for an artesian well had been held over. It was decided at last night's meeting of the Wanganui East Borough Council to instruct the Town Clerk to take proceedings against two persons who are alleged to have been scon removing sail from the No. 3 Line Load.

The Tho Chief Inspector stated at the meeting of the Education Board last night that there seemed to he a general impression that the .Board, wished to discourage scholarships, whereas, the whole intention of the Board, was in the otner direction.

Cr, Willis expressed the opinion a I last night’s meeting of the Wanganui East Borough Council that local plumbers should he given a chance to tender for tho ivor kin connection with gas. Other councillors agreed that the local meh slnald he. given a- chance to quote for such work. In connection with the case brought against the Inspector of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals at the Court yesterday, wo are asßcd to state that when the horse was brought into town by the Inspector it was not drawing a load. It was led slowly to the stables to he fed and looked after.

“The police are like the railway department; whatever they do for another department, they want to be paid for it.” This was the rejoinder made by Mr Pirani last night when a member of the Education Board suggested that the police bo asked to prosecute in truancy cases.

Tho chairman of the Education Board referred last night to the fact that inspectors did not take .sufficient notice of the out-of-door.part of school work, and asked that their reports in future'contain fuller reference to tho games and gardens which form such a prominent feature in school life. Tho contractors for the erection of the additions to tho Gonvillc School have near, iy completed their work. The children of the lower standards who have been accommodated in the Gonvillc Hall owing to there being no room for them in the main school, to-day occupied the new building, “as the hall was required for the poll in connection with the Gonvillc Town Beard loan proposals.

It does not scorn as if tho people of Wanganui wore too enthusiastic over the Governor’s visit, when the meeting which was to have been held yesterday to consider the arrangements for his Excellency’s reception, fell through owing to lack of attendance. Another meeting will probably bo hold shortly, and it is to be hoped ■that local residents will stretch a point in order to ho present.

The Rev. J. A. Luxford was in charge of the mid-day meetnng in St. Paul’s Class Room yesterday, in preparation for tho forthcoming Convention. The attendance, though small, was representative, and a hopeful sign of co-operation for a good convention was the pprcsencc of the ministers of three of the churches. There aro only three other preparatory meetings arranged for, viz., at St. Paul’s next Wednesday. at mid-day, and at the Baptist Class Room at 8 o’clock on the two r«xt Saturday evenings. Mr Pirani stated at the meeting of tho Education Board last cvenin gtliat a great mistake had been made in Wanganui in not buying more land for schools in the first place. The remark was passed in connection with tho consideration of a matter in which the Board is paying a big price for a section next the St, John’s School. If the original mistake had not teen made, much of the present trouble over the Infant School site might have been avoided.

We the Wanganui Collegian) are qnito certain that it was with feelings of deep regret and sorrow that the School hoard of the 1 death of John Douglas Cham, horlin. He had been taken from his home on Bonn! Island to an Auckland hospital to undergo an operation for appendicitis, and though at first all seemed to sro well, he died there'on Sunday morning, March 20, aged 18. He entered the school in September, 190G, and was confirmed in the school chapel on December 6 of the same year. In 1908 : and 1909 he rowed in the school boat, leaving in April, ]!)09. The steady example of his life will not easily be forgotten by those who knew him. Kindness, good nature, readiness to help others, these are the bright virtues which will always be connected with his name.

,Gr. Neilson brought up a matter at last night’s meeting of the Wanganui East Borough Council, which might well claim the attention of other local bodies. A clause from the .Public Health Act Amendment Act, 1907, .Section 7, (1), as follows* —“H shall not bo lawful to remove from the district under the iurisdiction of any local authority any building or part of a building, or any materials of which any building was composed, and to re-erect the same or use the same in the erection of any building within any other district without the consent of the local authority of the last-mentioned district.”,Cr. Ncilson considered attention should he’directed to tliis section of the Act, which was n6t widely known. Ho remarked that more than one house, had been erected in Wanganui East from the timber of an old building in another district, without £ll- - The penalty provided in such cases is not to exceed .£]()(). There are other districts wherein this clause is being violated, and it is well that the warning should he heeded.