LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 160795, 1 November 1920, Page 9

LOCAL AND GENERAL

’A Wellington telegram states that Mr Albert Jackson,, • 8.A., has been nominated as the Wellington candidate for the Rhodes scholarship. At the Court this, morning, T. RSimpson wgs fined 20s, with costs, for failing to attend a Territorial parade* and Clarence Signal 10s, with costs, for failing to register as a Territorial. A meeting of the Wanganui River Trust and Domain Board was held this morning, at which there were present: Messrs J. H. Burnet (chairman), A. S. Burgess, C. P. Brown, W. Morrison, . and T. B. Williams. Mr C. P. Brown, president of the Clia mber of Commerce, by virtue of his office is now a member of the Board vice Mr A. Harris. Mr T. B Williams was elected a member of the Works Committee. A letter was read from the Taumaruuui Borough Council asking for permission to remove gravel from the 'river bed. A sub-com-mittee was set up to deal with the application. It was decided to sell certain timber belonging to the Trust and now stored at Taumarunui. ,'A committee was set up to act upon the reply of the Lands Department with reference to the-,disposal of Kirikiriroa. The Department had been written to as to whether the Board had power to lease the block. The rabbi tslcin and carcase trade in the west is undergoing a troublous time, and a number of the works and depots have closed down, while others are contemplating the suspension of operations, gtates the Sydney Sun! In the first place, the American market for skins has collapsed, and Giving to the congestion of stocks bought last year at unprecedented prices, the carcase market abroad is also well supplied. In any case, the number of rabbits available to trappers is comparatively small. The rabbits certainly are breeding up again with the return to good times, but kittens are ignored by the skingetters. The serious unemployment that the slump in the trade would have ..caused has been counteracted by the demand for farm workers and shearers. The erstwhile trappers are now among the crops or sheep. A serious position, will orobably be created for these men, however, when the harvest is over and Shearing has cut out. Counsel for a lady driver of a motorcar, charged with exceeding the speed limit at the corner of Ridgway Street and the Avenue, stated at the- Court this morning that the driver found it necessary to speed up in order to avoid people loitering at the corner. The Magistrate commented on the novel excuse, 'and stated that defendant could have slowed down and sounded the horn. He then went oh to state that more than once he had had occasion, to remark upon the way people loitered at the Post Office corner. It seemed to him that they could not he taught that this was not a place to loiter. One difficulty in the way of the police was the fact that'a number of people were in the habit of waiting at this corner for trams. However, people had no business to wait off the footpaths. There were other routes which might have been selected for the trams, such as St. Hill Street. He could not accept defendant’s excuse for speeding in the busiest part of the Borough, and inflicted a fine of 265, with costs.