Bay of Plenty Times. SATURDAY, MARCH 24th, 1928 LOCAL AND GENERAL

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LVI, Issue 9744, 24 March 1928, Page 2

Bay of Plenty Times. SATURDAY, MARCH 24th, 1928 LOCAL AND GENERAL

Mr C. E. Macmillan, M.P., has received advice that the Hon, K., S. Williams, Minister of Public Works, and the Hon, A. D. McLeod, Minister ot Lands, will reach Te Puke at 9 a.m. on Tuesday next. Mr Williams will inspect the Kahuna River works after arrival, and Mr McLeod will receive a deputation in regard to the Waihi Swamp rating. In some parts of Holland, as well as in Argentina, wild clovejfls being planted because, where it flourishes, the malarial mosquito does not thrive. What the mosquito's particular dislike for the clover Held may be is not certain, but it is said that in the delta lands of Egypt the malarial mosquito is rare, although this area should provide plenty of breeding places for it. It is significant that clover fields ai’c to he found in the Nile delta in great numbers. In a general way. the ! cultivation of land clears away mosquitoes by drying up their breeding places, but it may be that clover is in sonic way unsuited to thorn when they arc past the larval stage. The malarial mosquito has gone from all but a very few places in England, where in the Middle Ages it was rife. Several local bodies, including the borough councils of Tauranga, Palmerston North, Hawera and Nelson, proposing to erect blocks of municipal buildings in which there should be shops for letting, have found that the law stands in the way; shops cannot be included in such buildings. The Municipal Association Conference at Nelson, upon the motion of the Hawera Council delegate, agreed that where the council erects a hall, library or other public building, it should be emjxnvcrod to include therein shops and olTices, so as to derive therefrom, rentals in -excess of the annual charges involved in the erection of such shop? and oftices. the previous sanction of the Local Government Loans Board to be obtained where the building is erected om of loan money, or of the Minister of Internal Affairs in other cases. It may be of interest to the genera] public to know that the assets of (he Rotorua Ugh School Board, as shown on its annua] balance sheet, just completed. total £49,555 (says the Rotorua Chronicle). This is made up as follows;—Govonnenl. valuation of the Board’s interest as lessor. and owner of the freehold of its endowment reserve containing 16ac ISper.. £35.680; school grounds, 19ac I.3per, £1875; school buildings. £11,648; school and office furniture, £302. Sanders Eucalypti Extract has highest per cent .of Ethereal Eucalptol, aim no phellandrene. Buy the purest and best—Sanders.

“The average opinion of the average man is that it is best not to be pulled into court proceedings, sen, tentiously observed a witness at the Dunedin Police Court 111 explanation. of his refusal to make a statement to the police m regard to a motor accident, with, which, he was concerned (reports the Otago Daily Times). “The average opinion of an average man, in such a case, is| extremely foolish, then,’ sharply retorted the magistrate (Mr H. W. Bundle, B.Mi,). A communication was read at the last meeting of the T© Puke Town Board from the County Clerk advising that allocations of traffic fees had been made as follows: County Council 55 per cent.. Borough Council 25 per cent.. Town Board 20 'per cent. —lt was resolved to notify the County Clerk that the Board was agreeable to the arrangements. Mr H. Cuff, chairman of the Electric Committee, reported to the last meeting of the Te Puke Town Board that the, pressure of the electric supply had been very unsat-isfactory.—-It was decided that the Board forward a protest to the Tauranga Power Board and to the Public Works Department. Mr W. O. Kennedy, a member of the Fiako County Council, has been asked to contest the Thames seat at the forthcoming general elections in the interests of the Labour Party. Mr Kennedy has not yet given h,is decision.