NEWS OF THE DAY

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22416, 25 August 1947, Page 4

NEWS OF THE DAY

Swimming Season Opens The swimming season opened on Saturday for some of Gisborne’s smaller fry, at least three young boys being observed swimming in the Waimata River on that day.

£1,103,900 For City Works Subject to authority being granted by the Local Government Loans Board, two loan proposals involving the expenditure of £1,103,900 will be placed before the Auckland ratepayers on November 19. the date of the municipal elections. The total is made up of a loan of £614,870 for the first stage of the Cossey’s Creek water supply development, a street improvement and drainage works loan of £478,850 and expenses incidental to the raising of the loans. Locomotive Shed Destroyed

Fire which broke out in the railway shed at the Taneatua station a few minutes after an express engine had been housed for the night, spread quickly throughout the shed and within a short time destroyed the whole building. Serious damage was done to the stored locomotive and tender. Apparently breaking out in the roof of the shed, the flames travelled quickly down the weather-boarding and engulfed the building. Sparks also ignited a nearby stack of firewood and a smaller shed in which oil was stored. Both were destroyed. Nett Award of £4050

Entering judgment in respect of the claim of Vernon Cuthbert Redesdale Mitford against the East Coast Commissioner for £SOOO withheld by the defendant in respect of alleged necessary repairs to fences and buildings on a leasehold property at Here, and on the counter-claim of the East Coast Commissioner for £5467, Mr. Justice Smith in the Supreme Court on Thursday made it clea r that the nett amount of £4050 was payable by the defendant to the plaintiff. The latter’s claim was offset by £950, the sum awarded by the special jury on the counter-claim. Key Money

“The term ‘key money’ is a new addition to our commercial language, said Mr. J- N. Kirk when, on behalf or a deputation of ex-servicemen, he asked the Mayor of Auckland, Mr. J. A. C. Allum, for assistance in obtaining business premises in the city. Mr. Kirk emphasised the difficulties ex-service-men were meeting in obtaining premises, and said there was a certain amount of “space-hogging” by people who could well make space available. There was also a certain amount of extortion by those leasing premises. Scenery Praised

The panorama of the Hauraki Gulf, seen from the hill at the back of Leigh, was described by Mr. Frank L. Purnell, of Southern California, during an address to the Auckland Rotary Club, as the iinest seascape he had seen in any part of the world. Mr. Purnell said that he left New Zealand as a young man in 1913 and had since travelled in many countries. He had been astonished on returning to the Dominion to find how small a proportion of New Zealanders had visited places like Waipoua Forest or the Southern Alps, and how small was the number who realised the scenic worth of their own land.