FORTY YEARS AGO

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 3252, 14 April 1943, Page 3

FORTY YEARS AGO

COUNTY COUNCIL TOSS TWO TENDERS EQUAL VOLUNTEER ENCAMPMENT (From the Ohinemuri Gazette of April 9, 1903.) It is not often that two tenderers put in the same price but this happened at the County Council 'meeting last week. W. Scott and E. Short both tendered for supplying Bbo cubic yards of metal on the main road and the price put in by each of them was £2lO. The chairman said that the only fair way of deciding who was to get the contract was to toss up a coin. “Heads” for Scott, and “tails” for Short, said the chairman, and councillors looked eagerly at the coin as it descended. It came “tails” and Short accordingly got the contract. * * * *

The arrangements for the. Volunteer Encampment at Te Aroha are now complete. The catering is in t he hands of Mr W. Taylor, of Pollen street, Thames. The canteen will be run by Mr Arthur Schlesinger and the carting is in the hands of Mr P. Baine of Te Aroha. The corps from Thames, Waihi and Paeroa, and the Battalion Band, will go into camp on Thursday night. Coromandel, Rotorua, Huntly and Onehunga corps will arrive on Friday. Over 70 men will arrive from Huntly and good musters are expected from the other corps.