AKAROA

Press, Volume L, Issue 15017, 11 July 1914, Page 5

AKAROA

Yesterday's Akaroa '"Mail"' has tho following:—rMucb dissatisfaction exists among tourists, visiting Akaroa as to tho way 'in which the Tourist Department fails to obtain seats in Mr )Pils_i*.C-*on's cars from Little River. It would not matter much if the Department did not undertake whon issuing tho tourist "tickets to __ im these details. A " tourist complained to. us tho ■ other day that when he obtained tickets from' tho Tourist Department, ho asked if he need telegraph for a seat. Ho was assured that it was not necessary. and then arrived on Tuesday to find there wero only five seats obtainable in the mail car and no seat had been engaged for him. He was obliged to wait three hours in Little River, whereas, if he had not S one , near the Tourist Department and had simply telegraphed to Mr Pilkington at Akaroa, he would_ ha™ S ot ° v f _£> •Vkaroa at once. Wo think that *ne townspeople of Akaroa should take ttuo matter. up, and ask the Tourist Department to keep their part of the agreement better.

DUNSANDEL. Work in connexion with.the erection of tbe Dunsandel telephone line is m progress. Already the poles .have been -laced a distance or three miles north. The metallic circuit line from Ban_sicle is also completed, and tho connecting up of subscribers will be commenced ra 9_e course of a. few days. .The work is under the supervision of Foreman linesman C. Banner. A demonstration or fruit tree pmnr_<T and spraying was given at Mr S. Sherrard's orchard on Thursday afternoon by the Government Orchard Jfi-c----pert, Mr (3o_rtier. There was a good attendance. . ' \ band of hope, under the auspices of "the local Society, was held on ___&- day evening. There was a lar<;e attendance, and a long and varied pn>cxhmme was weD received: Addresses were given by tho Rev. Mr Gregg and Mr C. H. Read. The former related hie experience of No-license in lnvercargill. The cbair was occupied by the Rev J S. Reid..

— .ASHBURTON. At'the. Juvenile.Court yesterday, be-, forb'Mr V.G. Day,'S.M.. throe small boys appeared on charges of stealing ;a sheepskin and several sacks., *wo of tho boys" ha_ previously been before tho Magistrate,, but the present offence wa3 committed prior to that on which the boys appeared on the first occasion. Tho sheepskin was sold to a local buyer for " over -6a.- Tho . Magistrate administered a severe admonition, and said if they appeared before him again he would commit them to an industrial 5ch001.,....- . ■