LOCAL AND GENERAL

Hawera Star, Volume L, 17 May 1930, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Eltham Borough Council made their annual inspection «C the borough roads, footpaths- and reserve on Thursday afternoon.

A start has been made by the Eltham Borough Council reserves and parks staff with the erection of a large cage to contain silver and golden pheasants. Advice has been received from the Department of Agriculture that the payment of the bonus of 1/- per snout, on’ all wild pigs destroyed has been discontinued as from March 31 last. Last evening, when driving in a sedan car from Eltham to Hawera, an Auckland motorist, with one passenger aboard, had a fortunate escape from injury when, about lialf-a-mile from the Eltham end' of the 'Boylan Road, his car skidded and overturned, coming to rest upside down at the foot of a bank at the side of the road. Luckily neither of the. men was hurt, nor was the car much damaged. In response to repeated representations by the Mayor regarding relief of the acute unemployment in Dunedin, the Minister of Public Works has replied that a £1 for £1 subsidy up to £IOOO had been approved on works the Dunedin City Council proposes to undertake for. the relief of returned soldiers. In addition, arrangements have been made for 125 men from Dunedin to be placed on Government relief works near the city. The flow of the Hapuni River has recently been very low, and the storage of water at the South Taranaki Power Board’s generating station has, during the last few weeks, been the lowest in the experience extending over 1,3 years of the engineer in charge of the power house, stated a reiport presented to the board last evening. The assistance of tjie auxiliary generating .plant had, however, enabled the usual service to be maintained.

Tree cutting neeessa.ry to give proper clearance to high-tension power lines was mentioned at last evening’s meeting .of the South Taranaki Power Board at Ha wera. As intimated by the chairman (Mr J. B. Murdoch), the board’s policy was to obviate wherever possible the destruction of plantations, but in the interests of .public safety and service maintenance it was essential that cutting should be undertaken where trees were likely to cause interference. Where cutting was required the board would notify the property owner, though statutory authority was provided allowing a power board to remove obstructions and charge the property owner with the cost involved.