NORTH OTAGO NOTES

Evening Star, Issue 22890, 23 February 1938, Page 9

NORTH OTAGO NOTES

WAITAKI POWER BOARD. The monthly meeting of the Waitaki Power Board was held yesterday, Mr J. M'Diarmid presiding. The financial statement showed cash receipts for January, with the figures for January last year in parentheses,.to bo as follow; —Current £5,641 lie 9d (£3,929 8s lid), fittings and house wiring £1,179 Is lid (£1,207 3s lid), cash sales £52 8s 7d (£36 14s 4d) ; total, £6,873 2s 3d (£5,173 7s 2d). The sales of electricity ror the 10 months ended January 31 totalled £33,564 (estimate £32,269), as against £29,317 for the same period last year. A request by the Exhibition Committee of the Power Boards’ Association for the board to reconsider its decision regarding a contribution to the cost of an electrical court at the Centennial Exhibition was referred to the Finance Committee. _ The board received a citation as a party to an award applied for by the Dunedin and Suburban General Electrical Workers’ Union.—The engineer was appointed to attend the hearing on March 23. It was decided that all applications for the purchase of refrigerators on the hire-purchase system be considered on their merits. The engineer (Mr I. Dalmer) reported that, during the month, 10 ranges, 11 water heaters, and six motors had been installed, and seven new consumers had been connected. The load added for the month was 112 kw> Careless tree-felling had been causing trouble, one recent case having caused a cut-off of power from the northern part of the town and the whole of the Waitaki Plains, BEEKEEPERS. A sucoesJful field day of beekeepers was held at Gemmell’s Crossing on Saturday. Mr Bennie (Ranfurly) gave an interesting demonstration of a method of removing bees from sipers of honey. Mr D. S. Robinson (apiary instructor) demonstrated methods of stopping robbing and also the branding of queens. Mr D. Hamilton explained the new uncapping plane, Mr Thomr

son proposed the vote 'of thanks to the speakers, the Beekeepers’ Association* and the ladies. AWAMOA CROQUET Cl^lß. The Awamoa Croquet Club •■ enter* tained honorary members on Saturday afternoon. The winners of competition* were Mesdames D. Findlay . and G.' M'Donald. For afternoon tea the table*, were beautifully decorated. KUROW FLtiWEft The flower show organised, by the Kurow Presbyterian Church was a great success. The display ..of ‘ cut blooms was particularly fine. ~ Most points in this section were gained by, Mrs A. H. Chapman, who annexed the Margaret Tait Memorial Cup.- Mrs J. L. Parsons won the William Milne Memorial Cup for vegetables, and Mrs W. J. M‘Lean won the Dunstan Cup in the baking section. Most points ini other sections were gained by Mrs J. O* H. Chapman (fruit), Mr J. E.M'Kenzie (produce), Mrs D. A. Small“(pre*. serves), Miss Dempsey, Miss M. M'Ken* zie, and Miss I. Harris (equal,'needle* work), Miss I. M'Gregor (decorative)* LAWN TENNIS.: A very enjoyable tennis match be* tween the St. Paul’s (Waimate) and Wesley teams at Oamaru resulted in success for Wesley by 12 sets to 11 sets.' Tokarahi beat Duntroon by 95 game* to 44 games. THE RING. The Oamaru Boxing Association has arranged a bout between Stan Jcnkin (holder) and Jack Jarvis, .towards the end of March for the welter-weight, title, GOLF. W. C. Christie was the winner of that North Otago Golf Club's etableford match on Saturday, with A. Millar run* ner-up. Each scored 37.