LOCAL AND GENERAL

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 68, Issue 138, 23 March 1948, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Factory in Orange Hall The Ashburton Borough Council last night decided to advise Tekau Knitwear .Co. that they had no objection to a factory being established in the Orange Hail area, provided that all care was taken to see that no nuisance was created.

Dangerous Corners It was decided at the meeting of the Ashburton Borough Council last night to request the Chief Traffic Inspector (Mr R. W. Dixon) to re-mark a plan of the town showing dangerous corners, and to mark in hedges or trees, etc, which were blocking visibility.

Building Permits Twenty new building permits totalling £ 13,84 S had been issued during last month, stated (lie report of the Ashburton Borough Engineer (Mr G. A. MacFarlane) presented at a meeting of the council last night. These included eight houses, valued at. £ 13',258. Royal Visit The Mayor (Mr E. C. Bathurst) informed the Ashburton Borough Council last night that he had written to the Town Clerk of Wellington requesting that the visit of their Majesties King George VI, Queen. Elizabeth and Princess Margaret to Ashburton he made as long as possible.

Fluorescent Lighting The Deputy-Mayor (Mr A. A. MacDonald) moved last night at the Ashburton Borough Council meeting that fluorescent lighting he installed in the Council Chambers. The present lighting was poor, and fluorescent lighting would prove less costly. Cr. P. Maynard seconded the motion, which was carried unanimously.

Poppy Day Permission for the R.S.A. to hold a street collection on Friday, April IG, for the sale of poppies was granted by the Ashburton Borough Council last night. Permission to use the patriotic stall in East Street was also granted, and authority to hold the usual Anzac Day service at the cemetery and Domain Oval was also given.

Boxing School A request was received at the Ashburton Borough Council meeting last night for the use of the Allenton Fire Brigade Station for training purposes by the Ashburton Boxing Association. Permission was granted, the fee to be charged to be left to the Town Clerk (Mr R. C. Major) and the Mayor (Mr E. C. Bathurst).

Church of Christ Service

All- A. D. Lowe, pastor of the Church of Christ, was assisted at the service on Sunday morning by a visiting student, Mr K. Andrews, of Glenleilh College, Dunedin. The 21st birthday of the college was celebrated recently. Mr Andrews spoke at the evening service on Sunday.

House for Sanitary Inspector When the position of sanitary inspector was being discussed at the Ashburton Borough Council meeting last night, Cr. J. R. Richardson suggested that when the guard house at the aerodrome was moved into the Borough, it be earmarked for the sanitary inspector. Cr. H. F. McElrea: “He might not pass it.” (Laughter.)

Moving Rest. Room At the meeting of the Ashburton Borough Council last night the Town Clerk, in his report, suggested that the rest room he moved to the room at the Public Library at present being used as a sample-room. The matter was referred to the Library Committee for an estimate of the cost of the chafige.

Assistant for Library The Country Library Service, Christchurch, asked permission of the Ashburton Borough Council to allow Miss M. J. Hamilton, of’ their staff, work one day a month in the Ashburton Public Library. Miss Hamilton wished to gain additional experience to help her in the general training course of the New Zealand Libraries’ Association. Permission was granted, the council suggesting that Miss Hamilton work in the library one Tuesday a month.

Ashburton Postal District The Ashburton Borough Council decided last night to write to the Post-master-General (the Hon. F. Hackett) requesting that Ashburton he made a postal district. The Mayor (Mr E. C. Bathurst) said that the county suffered disadvantages in not being declared a postal district. Towns both smaller and bigger than Ashburton were being declared postal districts. Mr R. G. Gerard, M.P., had taken the matter up with the Postmaster-Gen-eral but no move by the Government in the matter had been made.

Footpaths for Creek Road The Ashburton Borough Engineer, Mr G. A. MacFarlane, at a meeting of the Borough Council last night, recommended that a shingle path be constructed on the west side of Creek Road between Walnut Avenue and the bridge, and on the east side between Walnut Avenue and the water-race at an estimated cost of £GO. The provision of a footbridge three feet wide on the east side of the traffic bridge would cost £25. The council moved that the engineer’s recommendation be adopted.

History Repeats Itself

The Rev. W. A. Stevely, when being installed as Moderator of the Synod of Otago and Southland for the centennial year, said that when Dr. Burns was appointed the first moderator of the Synod he had been minister of First Church for exactly the same length of time as Mr Stevely. some 18 years. Dr. Burns had first been minister of file whole province. He was the first Moderator of the original Presbytery, and when this was split into three presbyteries, and the Synod came into being in 1870, he became its first Moderator.

Not Taken Up “I am not a. betting man—unless there are .some certainliesi about. But 1 hot I could give you a, spelling test that you could not do. I bet I could put a standard six arithmetic test in front of you that you not he able to do.” With those words, Mr A. F. MeMurtrie, Assisi ant-Directoi; of Education, challenged the delegates to the conference of the Associated Chambers of Commerce after listening to a great deal of criticism of what was called the “new” education. His remark aroused laughter, which was not unmixe’d with eomsleniation. No one appeared ready to take up Ihe gauntlet.

Mr E, Cholerton, Managing Director, Procter’s, Opticians since 1577, Christchurch, arrived in Ashburton today on a professional visit. —(Advt.)