LOOKING BACK.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 76, 11 January 1936, Page 4

LOOKING BACK.

FIFTY YEARS SYNE. (From the "Guardian," Jan. 11, 1886). Wakanui Road Board.—The ordinary monthly meeting of the Wakanui Road Board was held at the Board's office, Moore Street, on Saturday morning. Present were Messrs M. Bruce (chairman), T. Cole, W. White and T. Walsh. A letter was read from the Borough Council, enclosing an account for £1 15s, expenses incurred by the Fire Brigade at a recent fire at Trevorton. Mr White, who had been deputed to interview the Borough 'Council and inform them that in future the Board would not recognise claims for fire expenses owing to the brigade's services being rendered valueless on account of the scarcity of water, said that he had done so. Public library Subsidy.—lf the Borough Council has not as yet put in an application to share in the distribution of the £4OOO voted at the last session of Parliament for subsidies to public libraries, it may perhaps be as well to remind that body, that such applications must reach the Secretary for Education, Wellington, on or before the last day of the current month. Rangitata Postmaster.—-Mr T. Lewis is gazetted Postmaster at Rangitata.

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO.

(From the "Guardian," Jan. 11, 1911). Larrikinism in Ashburton.—With, reference to the recent complaints concerning larrikinism in the town during the Christmas and New Year holidays, three boys are to be charged on Friday with having let off crackers at Netherby on New Year's Eve under more than ordinary circumstances. Another boy is to be charged with wilfully puncturing a bicycle tyre on January 3. Borough Council Election.—An. election to fill the vacancy on the Borough Council caused by the resignation of Mr R. Clark will be held on February 2. Hakatere Club.—A monthly meeting of the committee of the Hakatere Club was held last evening, with Mr M. J. Moriarty in the chair. Correspondence was read from the club's solicitor relative to its position under the new Licensing Act. Arrangements for holding the handicap billiards tournament and other minor business was dealt with. Tasmania Doomed.—The Rev. R. J. Liddell, who returned to Ashburton on Tuesday from an extended trip through Tasmania, gave a "Guardian" reporter some interesting impressions of that State. In his opinion Tasmania, is a doomed country, if urgent reforms are not immediately carried out, for the state of affairs" in social life in the main towns is appalling.