HUTT VALLEY NEWS

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 87, 6 January 1933, Page 3

HUTT VALLEY NEWS

During November the s.s. Cobar did 140 round trips, burning 57 tons of coal, and giving an average consumption per round trip of .407 tons. Senior free places were gained by the following Lower Hutt Technical School pupils last year:—Edna Doran, John Alfred Jones, Richard Morrison, Lorna McHolm, lan Penhall, May Trigger, Lovell Wilson, and Maurice Wishno wsky.

CAMPING POPULAR

Many’ Tents in Valley During.the holiday season camping has had a keen following in the Hutt Valley. In the upper part of the Valley camping, grounds are many and varied, and full advantage of them has been taken by motorists. 1 A popular spot has been Manor Park camping grounds on the Haywards side of the Hutt River, just beyond the overhead railway bridge. There, conditions are almost ideal, and many tents have been pitched there over the week-end. . Verdant native bush covers the hills at the rear, and the site is a stone’s throw from the river. Close by are large fields which are admirably suited for the playing of. games. One camp, which attracted much, attention,, was established a short distance up from the traffic bridge at Silverstream in the row of willows which border the river. The tent was no more than twenty feet from the road, and the motorist’s eye was drawn by the colourful array of camping utensils draped on the trees. lii an open space nearby several caravans made a picturesque setting against a background of. willows. The natural camping facilities surrounding the Moonshine Bridge have also attracted many campers, and the native trees at the back of the river are studded with tents.

WORKLESS DECREASE

Registration Figures Decreases in the unemployed registrations in the Hutt A’alley are shown for the week ended December 31. With a total of 688 registrations, Petone shows a decrease of 11. The total is made up of 99 single men, 215 married men with uo children, 14S married men with one child, 96 married men with two children, and 130 married men with three or more children. AVork is being allocated to 628 men. Registrations at Lower Hutt amount to 838, which comprises 62 single men, 230 married men with no children, 999 married men with one child. 162 married men with two children, and 185 married men with three or more children. A decrease of four is recorded, and 783 men arc receiving work.

RIVER BOARD ELECTION

One Candidate WithdraAVs Notice of the withdrawal of his candidature for a seat ou the Hutt River Boiird in the forthcoming elections, was received from Mr. A. J. Nicholls by the returning officer for the board. Mr. A. J. Gearing, yesterday. The number of candidates is now reduced to ten for the live seats offering.

HUTT PERSONALS

Miss Bella Patton, of Queen’s Road. Lower Hutt, who is the guest of ber'sister. Mrs. Colin MacDonald, Blenheim, intends returning next week. Mrs. J. Tennant, who has been visiting her daughter, Mrs. AV. Olphert, Lower Hutt, returned to AVoodvillo yesterday. Miss Mary Paton, Day’s- Bay, has returned home after .a motor tour of the North Island. Miss Eudora Henry, daughter of Dr. C. D. Henry. Silverstream. will leave on Monday night for a tour of New Zealand with I lie orchestra, of the Sybil Thorndike Company, in which she will act as ’cellist.