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Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 18 September 1934, Page 4

At last night’s meeting of the Hawera Borough Council a special resolution moved by r the May’or (Mr J. EL Campbell), seconded by Cr. W. J. Bright relative to the tenancy of the Commercial Hotel at a weekly rental of £l3 10s was carried for confirmation at a subsequent meeting.

According to a statement made to the Stratford Borough Council last evening by the town clerk (Mr P. Slcoglund), Public Works Engineers will visit Stratford this week in connection with the aerodrome scheme. The method of development and the apportionment of cost will be considered. The statement also said that unemployed relief labour would be made available for development work. The recent reduction brought about by the South Taranaki Power Boardm its charges for electricity consumed in heating and power resulted, in a saving to the Hawera Borough Council on last month’s accounts of £4 14s dd. The charge for heating and power was £3B 8s lOd whereas at the old rate the council would have had to pay £43 3s 3d. Spread over a period of 12 months the saving amounted to approximately £SO, which the Mayor (Mr J. E. Campbell) regarded as a substantial concession. Or W. G. Walkley expressed the opinion that the reduction should apply also to street and house lighting. In reply the Mayor- said, he had. expressed his disappointment at the time the reductions were announced that til© lighting charges, remained the same, but it was explained that the aim of the board was ta build up its day load first before extending the reductions to light. That certain areas of New Plymouth were endangered, constantly by falling sparks and cinders from passing railway engines was revealed in correspondence tabled at a meeting of the New Plymouth Fire Board yesterday. After considering a complaint from a manufacturing concern and agreeing that the matter was a serious one, the board decided to forward the correspondence to the general manager of railways and to urge that immediate action bo taken to eliminate the danger. While in Australia, Mr W. A. Waters, of Palmerston North, who returned on Saturday, spent some time at Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith’s hangar at Mascot aerodrome. He inspected the Lady Southern Cross and saw various tests being carried out, together with the tuning-up process prior to the record-breaking flights to Perth and back. Sir Charles was somewhat worried over the certificate of air-worthiness, but hoped to have the difficulty straightened out shortly. He proposed flying a leisurely trip to England, starting on September 25, but, as Sir Charles remarked, a leisurely trip to England in his new bus was only a matter of seven days. In order to rapidly fill several hundreds of gallons of petrol aboard the competing planes, the oil companies have built special tank wagons, complete with floodlights and capable, of pumping in the petrol at the rate of 95 gallons a minute. One will be stationed at Darwin and one at Charlesville, while the Australian Navy will be patrolling the Timor Sea, which is a 500-mile water crossing. Asked if he thought he would win the race, Sir Charles replied that it he didn’t the winner at least would know he had been flying.