LOCAL AND GENERAL

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XLVIII, Issue 7472, 13 August 1920, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Borough Council on Wednesday night decided to instruct the engineer to instal electric light i-n the band room and the public library. The Farmers' Auctioneering Company will hold an important sale at Pongakawa to morrow on account of Messrs Holland and Veysey. The lines to be offered comprise a choice dairy herd, ■purebred Shorthorns, mixed cattle, pigs, horses, and a wide range of farm implements and machinery. A special meeting of the Tauranga Domain Board will be held op Tuesday evening next to consider Mr Pearson's report on beautifying the Mount. The same evening the Council (which constitutes the Board) will meet members of the Fire Board to discuss matters regarding the storage of benzine, etc. At the meeting of the Rotorua County Council on Monday last a letter was read from Mr Pugh, Paengaroa, offering to join the council in putting a water trough on Kaikokopu Road and connecting it with his sections, He also offered to fix up certain roads. The matter was left in the hands of the overseer to deal with. The special Housing Committee set up by the Borough Council submitted the following recommendation on Wednesday night, viz , "That Mr Clemson be instructed to prepare plans and specifications for a dwelling for a working man with family; building to be in concrete or brick and to cost say £800." The matter was left in the hands of the Mayor and Crs Whiting, Castaing and Ashton to deal with. The East Coast Shipping Company's vessel Isabella de Frame arrived from Auckland at eight o'clock this morning with general cargo. She unloads at Tauranga to-day and it is intended to discharge cargo at the Mount tomorrow.

The Borough Council at its last meeting voted the sum of £4 towards the expense of sending a delegate to Wellington in connection with the deputation to the Government urging the amendment of the local Railways Act to provide for the construction of light railways. While returning from Tauranga on Saturday afternoon' Senior-Sergeant O'Grady met the lad Christopher Drinkwater, who disappeared from his home at Waitawheta last Friday morning, about 14 miles this side of Tauranga. The sergeant brought the lad,_ who was on foot, back to Waihi by car, and when questioned as to why he ran away the boy said it was because his schoolmaster was dissatisfied with him over his lessons and was frequently taking him to task. The boy was handed over to his parents.—Waihi Telegraph. The Borough Council on Wednesday night received intimation I from the Bank of New Zealand | that the rate of interest on the 1 Council's overdraft would in ! future be 6 per cent instead of 5-!-per cent. This week's illustrations in the Sporting and Dramatic Review are well up to the usual high standard, both from a variety point and that of up to'date interest. Sporting is particularly catered for in an animated series of scenes covering recent events in England as well as Dominion happenings. A full page photograph of Amythas will appeal to the racing fraternity. The stage is represented in attractive portraits, the reproductions all through being of high meritYov Children's Hacking Cough, Woods' Great Peppermint Cure!" 1/9. 2/9