LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16035, 28 January 1920, Page 9

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A London cable states that Foch laid the foundation of the memorial to the Dover Patrol at Calais.

A Wellington telegram states that a Dominion Conference of the Bank Officers’ Guild opened to-day. Advices fro Wellington show that there is a chance that the mine-owners may decide to shut down on the go-slow miners, and thus precipitate a general upheaval.

Dr. Pox, medical superintendent of the Christchurch Hospital, has sent the chairman of the Hospital Board a cheque for £IOO, being the first donation for a fund to establish a travelling scholarship for the Christchurch Hospital nurses and others.

A projiosition which will do much to relieve the building problem locally in Wanganui is under consideration by a local business man. He has obtained the Glasgow lease of 2;] acres of municipal land at ihe foot of St. John’s Hill, opposite the bowling green, and contemplates the erection of 17 houses of a substantial nature. The first of these houses will bo erected shortly, and it is understood, has already been sold. A land sale was conducted by Mr S. E. Read in Everybody’s Theatre this afternoon, when three properties were submitted. The first was a quarter-acre section and six-roomed house at Wanganui East, which was passed in at £750. A second house property, fiveroomed dwelling on quarter-acre, situated at Durie Vale, was passed in at ,£3OO. A property belonging to the Education Board, 1-f acres at Mosstown, was sold after brisk bidding, for £270.