UPKEEP OF ROADS

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22465, 28 July 1938, Page 4

UPKEEP OF ROADS

DIVERSION OF REVENUE WANTED RESOLUTION SUPPORTED BY RANGIORA COUNCIL Support for the resolution passed recently at a conference of Canterbury local'bodies and automobile authorities urging the Government to devote the net proceeds from motor taxation to the upkeep of roads was given by the Rangiora Borough Council at its monthly meeting last night. “I am sure that local bodies and others connected with the upkeep of roads will agree that if the whole of the net proceeds from motor taxation were devoted to the upkeep of roads the Highways Board would not only be freed from the necessity of borrowing money to cope with the urgent reading requirements of the country, but more money would be available and essential works could be stnrt'M.l sooner and carried out marc expeditiously than they are at present." said the Mayor (Mr C. W, Tyler). IMPROVING STREETS AT RANGIORA REVIEW OF .MONTH’S ACTIVITIES Activities of the Rangiora Borough Council outside staff during last month were confined more or less to improving streets, clearing reserves for tree planting, and attending to the drainage system, according to the report of the Borough Foreman (Mr J. V. Rowland), .which .was presented .at-, the monthly meeting of the council last evening. The widening of Lindon street was completed and an earthen channel and footpath formed, the foreman reported. Fences in Good street had been moved farther back from the road to conform with the general scheme far extensive street widening. Extra men were engaged on removing trees in Church street and in splitting them for firewood. , . Disappointment at the council’s decision not to purchase a truck was expressed by Mr Rowland in his report 3e said that the need for “some addition of this kind” was becoming more evident every day and that a truck would facilitate considerably the work being undertaken in the borough. BILLIARDS AND SNOOKER RANGIORA BEATS KAIAPOI CLUB A billiards and snopker match between a team of Rangiora players ana members of the Kaiapoi Working Men s Club was played at the Kaiapoi club rooms on Tuesday evening. Rangiora won by 8 games to 4. , rc The games resulted as follows (Rangiora names first): — Billiards—C. Kirk 100 beat R. Currie 93. C. Watkins 71 lost to A. Watson 100, C Pulley 100 beat J. C. Simpson 95, J. Pulley 100 beat P. Bayhs 24 J. Currie 100 beat G. Logan 82, C. Butters 98 lost to J. Price 100. Snooker—K. Purvis 63 beat H. Hutchinson 30, B. Ross 44 lost to S. Robson 45, C. Devlin 29 lost to N. Eves 50, S. Lugg 67 beat R. Ball 22, E. Dpggett 86 beat A. Munn 23, R. Jones 60 beat J. Revell 48. PERSONAL NOTES RANGIORA The following were elected members of the North Canterbury Jersey Cattle Club at the annual meeting if the club on Tuesday evening:—Messrs J. Wills (Tai Tapu). A. A. Croy (Brookside), Oliver Cock P Dulieu (Greenpark), W. H. Jakins (Christchurch). Nolan Bros. (SpreyD. Bruere. Ashley street, Rangiora, is spending a months holiday in Dannevirke. where she will be the guest of her sister, Mrs L. D. J. Smith. CHEVIOT Mr L. S. Jarvie, who has been stationmaster at Mina for the Vist five years, has received notice of transfer to the Christchurch office on promotion. AKAROA Miss P. Kearney (Akaroa) has returned from a holiday visit to her aunt Mrs H. Fletcher. Lyttelton. Mr J. Curry, borough gardener at Akaroa, returned recently from a holiday in Christchurch. LINCOLN Mr and Mrs O. Hartley have returned to Lincoln, after a visit to the North Island. , , . Mrs Robert Thomson has returned from Australia, where she has been I visiting her mother, Mrs Dalgleish. Miss Ethel Hartley (Le Eon’s Bay) fis visiting Mrs O. Hartley (Lincoln).