MUCH PROGRESS

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 60, Issue 4368, 13 December 1950, Page 10

MUCH PROGRESS

PREPARING FOR XMAS MANY IMPROVEMENTS IN AND ABOUT COROM ANDE-L Progress in various directions is to be seen in and around Coromandel starting in a small way with the neat public notice board, complete with glass door and placed in a conspicuous place in the town. This is an innovation sponsored by the chamber of commerce. The actual work was done satisfactorily by Mr R. V. Hawley, the chamber paying for the material. This is a step in the right direction for keeping down unsightly placards.

The new building further up the street is the much needed tea and luncheon rooms combined with home cookery shop. The owners, Mr and Mrs Bremner, have carried on their home cookery business under difficulty. In fact the building previously occupied was condemned as unsuitable for that purpose—hence the new one across the road. The summer visitors will welcome the added accommodation which will be available as the town has long felt the need of an attractive tea room.

Down the road again we come to the building of the new bridge at Furey’s. Work is steadily progressing and the Gazette correspondent in conversation with the contractor, Mr J. Pike, was told that he would be driving the test piles with the next few days. Difficulty has been experienced in procuring some of the material required, but with the driving of the piles, the bridge will begin to take shape. Long Bay park beach is already attracting numbers of visitors and each Sunday for some time past quite a number have been in for a swim. ■Considerable interest is being taken in the new team chosen to conduct the county council business. On Wednesday the chairmanship will be decided and the new council will have the opportunity of showing the old team whether the new council can do better than the last. Already there is the Christmas feeing in the air of Coromandel. On Saturday night last there was a packed louse at the Civic theatre which the lew proprietors have improved by installing two new Hans Goetz machines.