HUTT VALLEY NEWS

Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 80, 29 December 1931, Page 3

HUTT VALLEY NEWS

EASTBOURNE NEED Erection of Esplanade POPULARISING RESORT It was stated to a “Dominion” reporter by an Bastbourne resident yesterday that, with the installation of a water and drainage system, the borough would also require an esplanade. No seaside resort, he said, was really a success until it had an. esplanade and an area for children and adults to play tennis and other summer games, in conjunction with it. That fact was soon realised by Timaru and New Brighton. From the completion of the plan for an esplanade, both those places went ahead by leaps and bounds. Continuing, the resident said that the stretch o£ beach running north of Bona Bay wharf was ideal for an esplanade. All that was really required to be done was to level the sand hills, and to erect a concrete wall. The labour required for the levelling was Obtainable under the No. 5 Scheme. . .. An esplanade was, he continued, bound to prove a great attraction, especially if band recitals were given in a rotunda which he anticipated would also be erected. Never again would the borough council have such an opportunity to get work done at such little cost, comparatively speaking.

CARNIVAL CROWDS Event on Petone Beach INTEREST IS UNABATED Interest in the Petone Beach Carnival continues unabated. Thousands of people thronged the beach yesterday, and patronised the side shows and the various stalls. The wind in the morning did not add to the pleasure of bathing, and made boating out of the question. /' -- . In the afternoon, however, the wind died down, and hundreds of people went in swimming, while yachts ■ and rowing boats were continually about the waterfront. '' HAMPERS FOR WORKLESS Arrangements at Eastbourne The children’s party given at Eastbourne, details of which were published in yesterday’s “Dominion,” was given by the mayor, Mr. S. F. Fisher, and Mrs. Fisher, themselves, and not as the result of any response to an appeal for funds. Mr. Fisher stated yesterday that there had been a good response to his appeal for funds toward providing Christmas hampers for all the unemployed families. Eighty-three hampers were distributed. Each hamper contained 101 b. of potatoes, cauliflower, peas, 41b. ■ sugar, cabbage, meat, Christmas pudding, rice, tea, and sweets.

BURGLARY AT PETONE Police Make Arrest Alleged by the police to be responsible for entering the shop of Leslie Dunderdale, 110 Cuba Street, Petone, during the week-end, a man was arrested at Petone yesterday. He will appear in the Police Court this morning to answer a charge of breaking, entering, and theft. . ROWING CLUB DANCE A- Christmas dance held at the Petone Rowing Ciub proved a great success. The band presented a new number, with vocal chorus., “Roll on, Mississippi, Roll On.” Exhibitions of dancing were given, and during the supper interval a monster Christmas cake, in which were hidden a thimble and a button, was cut. The finders were rewarded with presents.

SPENDING RELIEF MONEY In last Monday’s issue a statement was published relative to unemployed scheme 5 men and prohibition orders.. It was made to appear that in future no man would be given relief until he took out a prohibition order against himself, -this was incorrect. Mr. McCurdy, 'Mayor of Upper Hutt, informs us that the question arose out of the issue of a prohibition order against a relief worker by Messrs. P. Robertson and himself last week It was mentioned at the time that some half-dozen of the men out of over 260 “live” registrations were in the habit of spending their relief pay on drink, and thus inflicting hardship upon their wives and children. These people were the most clamorous for assistance from the Red Cross, Hospital Board, local clergymen, and private individuals. In response to our representative s inquiry as to what could be done ith them, he was informed that in two instances prohibition orders for twelve months had already been issued and it was the intention to bring before the local unemployment executive the names of four or five others with a view to protecting their families by making it a condition of their continuance under scheme 5 that a prohibition order be taken out by themselves for a term of. twelve months also. There was no intention whatever to make this a general rule, as with the exception of about, half-a-dozen (who are not really Upper Hutt people) the remaining 260 are decent-living men against whom no charge of drinking could be even thought of.

MAKING FOOTPATHS The Estbaournc Borough Council has taken advantage of the No. 5 scheme to employ most of the unemployed men in the borough on the construction of footpaths. By these means there is scarcely a street in the borough that has not at least one footpath. . Good work has also been done in cleaning out the kerb channels and removing the grass from tne sides of the streets.

MURITAI TENNIS CLUB Since the publication of the results of matches in the Muritai Tennis Club’s handicap events, W. P. Bollings (owe 10) beat W. Fisher (5). 62 —60.