LOCAL AND GENERAL

Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 15 January 1930, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Opunake Power Board have received 48 applications for the vacant position of electrical engineer-overseer, caused by the resignation of Mr T. B. Merson.

Thc inclusion of a publican’s name oil a petition presented to the Egmont County Council yesterday, praying for ■a Saturday half-holiday in the county, evoked the facetious query from a councillor as to whether he would be prepared to close his bar on Saturday afternoons.

At the Egmont County Council meeting at Opunake yesterday the engineer was instructed to bring down a report, tor presentation at next meeting, on the condition of stated by-roads ana the cost of putting them in good orderThe chairman stated that approximately £120,000 had been expended on tiimain roads and bridges, and now that the end of tar-sealing was in sight it was time the council paid more attention to its by-roads.

In negotiating a right-hand turn from the Eltham-OpunaK© Hoad into Upper Waiteika Road yesterday afternoon a iivesseater car driven by Mrs. C. It. Wemyss, of Te Kiri, came to grief in a narrow, deep ditch on the roadside. Mrs. Wemyss was accompanied by two of her children. The occupants of the car were fortunate to escape injury from the Hying fragments of the shattered wind-screen.

W hen the Stratford Hospital Board met yesterday, Dr. D. Steven pnedical superintendent; reported that although he approved of tiie proposed alterations and additions to the hospital from a general viewpoint, there were still a number of details that required revision and inclusion in the plans which had already been adopter oy the board. After hearing the doctor's personal explanation or his views, the board set up a committee to go further into the plans and give the doctor’s suggestions due consideration. A well-known Hawera resident, on a recent visit to the Lake Taupo district, was, with a party, engaged in trolling th© waters of the hme for trout. Something of a novice at this particular form of sport, he- was not above taking the advice of an experienced member of the parti’—"Don’t puK its head off,” when his finst fisih struck, and he refrained subsequently from exercising the •reel unduly, with the result tna.t when the boat returned to shore he \\us surprised to find his Uine was attached to another fine specimen which he had unknowingly been dragging unough the water for some considerable time.