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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 19035, 12 June 1924, Page 4

At the Hamilton Court T motorist was fined £1 and costs for failing ta dim his lights when approaching au« other car. In Wdnganui there is a division of opinion whether or not lights should be * med. { *

A Paris Court has ordered a horn pltal surgeon to pay ten thousand francs damages to a patient who had to undergo a second operation owing to a piece of gauze having been left in an incision during the first opera’ tion.

The Napier Harbour Board oa Tuesday decided to purchase the Gis< borne Harbour Board’s dredge Maui. The Gisborne Board is negotiating for the purchase of a complete dredging unit from Australia with which to initate the new harbour scheme.

His Worship the Mayor (Mr. Hoj»e Gibbons) yesterday received telc« graphic advice that the Hon. G. J* Anderson, who is to officiate at a publie function in Palmerston North t’liM afternoon, will come on to Wanganui in the evening and leave again next mottling for New Plymouth. At Lyttelton yesterday morning* Captain Kettlewell, of the Dorsetmade the presentation of a sum ox money to his crew on behalf of thd father of Clermont Staden, 21, of New York, who was picked up at sefl by the Dorset on April 23, neat Panama. The money had been foft warded through the America! Consul. As the result of a further conference held yesterday between representatives of the Wanganui and Rangitikei County Councils, a definite settlement was reached in regard to the new bridge over the Wangaehu Rivei at Kauangaroa. The basis of settlement is that the old contract shall be terminated, that the engineers shall confer in regard to fresh designs off the bridge, and that a now contract shall be let to carry out the work. America is foremost in the making of electricity, but other countries are following closely, particularly those with abundance of water. New Zea« land is a striking example (says ag editorial in the Bendigo Advertiser). The great wafer supplies of that country place it in an enviable position in regard to the generation of electricity, and it seems destined to become an important manufacturing centre before many years pass. Hea? works on a few rivers were commenced there over 20 years ago among th< first to see the utility and economy of it being the people of Du nodi nJ descendants of Scottish settler* who have never forgotten the lessonfl on thrift inculcated by their forbears. When other cities were toiling along in the old grooves these far-sighted people had the satisfaction of riding in electric trams and making profit out of it. When the cautious peopifl of Dunedin showed the way, tuners felt it safe to follow, and schemes embracing lakes and streams everywhere were propounded. Loen! bodies took them up as far as tneir limited means allowed, and then the Govern-, ment began to take charge of thd country’s water power. In 1903 thd total horsepower was 9911, and las* year it was 54,244.