NORTH OTAGO NOTES

Evening Star, Issue 23122, 23 November 1938, Page 13

NORTH OTAGO NOTES

[From Ore Oa.mmio Correspondent.'] WAITAKI POWER BOARD. The monthly meeting of the Waitaki Power Board was held yesterday, Mr J. M'Diarmid presiding. The Finance Committee reported receipts as follows, compared with the same month last year:—Current £5,712 (£5,164), fittings and house wiring £945 (£1,122), cash sales £56 (£55). Sales of electricity totalled £2,542 (£2,218). A grant of £1 Is was made to the Oamaru Retailers’ Committee’s advertising fund. It was agreed to buy £2 2s worth of health stamps. The engineer (Mr I. Dalmer) reported that 17 cookers, 23 water heaters, and nine motors were installed during the month, and 15 new consumers were connected up. The new feeder line in the town and to the north was being supplied at 11,000 volts. A new substation was to be erected at the top of Eden street to supply the north end and a branch would be taken from the new line at the top of Orwell street to improve the supply at the north end of the town. Much improvement- work had been done at the power house, including switches and cables for a new 11,000 volt line to Takaro Park, where a larger transformer had been erected. Extensions had been carried put at Waianakarua, Ardgowan, Pukeuri, and Teaneraki. BOROUGH COUNCIL. Among the committee recommendations to come before the Oamaru Borough Council to-morrow night are the following:—That £3 3s be donated to the Retailers’ Committee’s 'summer advertising fund; that the council agree to co-operate in the setting up of a District Physical Welfare Committee; that the footpath fronting sections 3 to 8, Test street, be asphalted, the owners to pay part of the cost; that street names, when replaced, be named on both sides and show house numbers; that the Beautifying Society be permitted to plant flowering cherries in Foyle and Exe streets; that the managers of the Pukeuri and Pareora freezing works be asked to furnish a monthly return of all sheep and lamb carcasses forwarded for sale within the abattoir district; that A. W. Marshall’s tender for slaughtering at the abattoirs be accepted. MAGISTRATE’S COURT. At the Oamaru Magistrate’s Court yesterday, before Mr. H. W. Bundle, S.M., Edward George Patterson was fined witnesses’ expenses (10s 6d) and costs (lOs) for aiding and abetting R. S. Draper, licensee of the Georgetown Hotel, in selling liquor after hours, and 10s and costs (10s) for being _on licensed premises during prohibited hours. Moak Davis pleaded guilty to placing glass in Thames street, and, as the glass had been cleaned up, the case was dismissed on payment of 5s by defendant. For failing to carry a warrant of fitness, Matthew John Cooney was fined 5s and costs (12s). HEALTH STAMPS. The Waitaki High School girls sold £lO worth of health stamps at the North Otago Show on behalf of tho North Otago Children’s Welfare Association. The association intends to hold a street sale of stamps and to send 40 children to the Kurow camp in January. THE RAINFALL. In the 24 hours to 9 o’clock yesterday morning 109 points of rain fell in Oamaru, making 1.85 in for the month* One inch of rain fell at Awamoko. PERSONAL. Miss Isobel Gunn has been appointed junior assistant librarian at the Gan# aru Athenaeum.