TRAFFIC FEES UNPAID

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 18 January 1935, Page 9

TRAFFIC FEES UNPAID

ELTITAM CARRIERS IN COURT. TWO CASES ADJOURNED. Charged in the Eltham Magistrate s Court yesterday with failure to pay heavy traffic fees on their lorries, L. A. Gower and Erie 'I rusk, appeared before tfte court, the former pleading guilty. Both cases were adjourned by Mr W - H. A\ oodward, S.M., to see whether a settlement coukl be effected. .Mr Weir, for the borough council, said Gower paid his toes quarterly and there was great difficulty in collecting his instalments. He had been warned by- the inspector but had not paid. It was explained by .Mr A. A.. Stewart that Gower hail a number of lorries and-had hired another from Mamba. When he took this truck ovei I he did not ascertain whether the heavy traffic fees had been paid. It was true lie had been warned but at the | time he did not have the money, llis accounts were ratlicr lmrcl to collect but he expected some money this week and would pay ou Saturday. Making a statement in ins own case Trask said that he had had « lot of trouble with his lorry and intended to get it off the road. The inspector said the lull lee 101 the quarter would have to be paid, but a refund could be obtained foi any unused period. Hearing in both cases was adjourned to next court day.

carboniferous times. These plants have, however, been known to exist m later beds, so there may be some little doubt as to their true age. Beds have been discovered of a much later date in Graham Land and in flic South Shetland* which might contain coal, because tliov are connected with those • m x, MV Zealand which overlie coal bed?. They may be an extension of them. ’ ’

LUXUIIIAN T VEG ET ATION. Another interesting feature, continued Professor Speight, was that roilud the South Pole, iu regions now exposed to frost, -snow and darkness for a considerable part of the year there was evideucc. of a nourishing uud luxuriant vegetation having once existed—that was oue of the problems as difficult to explain as the occurrence of glaciation in the tropics iu certain former geological periods. Professor Speight remarked that there was a close resemblance bc-twoen the general structure of Antarctic* and

Australia, and the presence of coal beds was only another example of that. In Griffith Taylor’s “Antarctic Adventure and .Research' ’ (1930) it is stated that coal has been found in the Beardmore outcrops and also by the author’s party near Moutyt Suess (latitude 77 degrees south). Dr. Gould had reported carbonaceous shales near the foot of Liv Glacier. The Mount Suess seams appeared to occur with dark shales near the base of the sandstones. It was a bright, hard coal with a large amount of ash. As for the Beardmore coal. Frank Wild had recorded 300 feet of coal measures containing seven seams of coal, from one foot up to seven feet in thickness. *

“Sir Edgeworth David has endeavoured to estimate the extent and possible value of the coal reserves in Antarctica,” continued the writer. “The Beacon ■Saiiustono is proved to co\ei 12.000 sepia re miles of available territory, but it is unlikely that coal measures are developed throughout. Our parties found no coal in the ForrarTaylor Valleys. Possibly a. great deal of coal exists under the polar ice cap at a. lower level than the South Victoria llorst, where alone it has been observed so far. Probably it lies -000 or 3000 feet below the surface of the ice. If this hypothetical coalfield were 7UO miles long by 143 wide, and it the seams were only 19 feet thick, there are coal reserves here second only to those of the United States.”