DUNEDIN NOTES.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 161, 1 April 1908, Page 8

DUNEDIN NOTES.

; • > (^^ a •' '• !:'''■•.• .r■ •.•■:'■> Dunqdln,.'March 31- : i -The, .'work- of:, opening; up '.a-,new'''channel.' in the • jfljrerhaHiour. "just", Otago ;Heads has' proceeded 'so' satisfact-orily thattho'Har:bpur: Board? s < engineer,;. J.' vßlaijv ,Mas6ri) ,has- : .in'„not: .very „ distant;' 'rorilemplation ■ .the .'gazetting' of tbe.oiosifig _of;tho old;and -more tortuous channel..'' V.'Potrol.,v ■■ • ■ ••■■■"V •. :.■. i Concerning the report" tel&graphed "• from Qhristohurchfthat there.is- a, serious" shortage of petrol there, and,' it is believed, throughout tho dominion, dwilers: in Diinedin state that though the supply of petrol they have afr'.'oommand is vory limited they'-have sufficient for present, requirements, and l .hope:by economic uso to eke it ou,t until the shipmont daily oxpccted: arrivos in Dunedin.- Should the. stock in hand become exhausted'there is sufficient. benzine, and naphtha available to supply motorists 1 ; demands for somo time to come. , ' ; Draught!.,-! .' '' ■ Tho' New Zealand Draughts Championship' Meeting' in Dunedin at ]iaSfer will be- attended by airtho. well-known strong players of th'o Dominion'.' Tho committee havo been fortunate in' securing. tho services of Mr. Georgo Foreman as referee. Messrs, H. Montgomery, : R. Caldow; J; Abernethy, and (j. Foreman have been appointed handicappers. V . An Old Public Servant. ; ■ Mr. AV Reado, who retires from the post of Receiver of Land Revenue at Dunedin, was' one •of tho first two telegraph opomors in New Zealand, being employed in 1860 qii the'wire first strung between I/yttfelfcon and ClirigtcHuroL