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Press, Volume LX, Issue 18141, 2 August 1924, Page 4

Has the liorse had its dny? The question was raised on Monday evening at the Mount Eden Borough Council meeting, when Mr G. L. Taylor expressed the view that the time was coining when horses would be quite oft' the roads, and therefore the Council would be wrong to worry about horses. The matter came before the Council by way of a suggestion from the Auckland and Suburban General Carriers' Association that local bodies, when planning new roads, should endeavour to find a method of affording a footing for horses. Mr Taylor said be did not think the Council should alter its plans in any way. The tendency now was to consider motor, vehicles only. Horses were quite a nuisance on the road (renorte the "New Zealand Herald"}. That view did not pass entire!'- without challenge, for Mr Newcomb said that the carriers using horses should have equal consideration witli the motor carriers. It was agreed to consider the matter when froada were completed. Curious particulars were given at a timber merchants' meeting at Wembley of the vicissitudes of oak. It was said that in the past some of our most valuable oak trees, had been used for waggon seautlings, at a price of about 6s a foot, while Austrian oak, used for panelling, cost 'ibout £3 ..1 foot. It would obviously be. better to use English oak fqr panelling and Austrian oak foi waggons. Architects, although anxious to use English oak for beams, are handicapped by not kuowuig wherg to obtain it.