Lake Wakatip Mail. QUEENSTOWN, TUESDAY, AUGUST 11 1931

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 4012, 11 August 1931, Page 4

Lake Wakatip Mail. QUEENSTOWN, TUESDAY, AUGUST 11 1931

At a meeting of the Borough Council on Thursday it was decided to undertake shortly the top-dressing of the. Recreation Reserve. This is r step in the right direction. The contract for printing the Central Otago General 801 l was completed at this office last week. The roll is oue of 187 pages containing Dd(!l names. One of the fortnightly socials under the auspices of St. Joseph V Church was held in the schoolroom last Tuesday evening, when there was a good attendance. Mr Hugh Armour, carpenter, Stanley St., Queenstown, advertises that he is prepared to undertake alterations and building jobs of all kinds. The Post and Telegraph Department invite tenders for Inland Mail Service contracts for the South Island. Particulars are advertised in this issue. Mr J. E. Weavers, proprietor of the Arrow town skating rink, gave a private demonstration to some members of .till© Queenstown Borough Council in the Garrison Hall on Friday afternoon. Mr Weavers has made application for the use of the hall for u link and his object was to convince the City Fathers that rubberwheeled skates would not prejudicaliy affect the floor surface for dancing. His application will be finally dealt with at the next meeting of the Council. . Flying instruction at the Cromwell Flying school is progressing satisfactorily. says the ‘Argus.’ Mr Dougal Grant Hew solo during the week and put up a very good demonstration on liis first solo and other flights. Capt. White considers this pupil a promising young pilot and well above the average. " He is the first pupil to fly solo iu Central Otago.— Queenstown people will be interested in the foregoing as Mr Dougal Grant is the elder son of Mr and Mrs J. T. ‘X.. Grant, of the Commercial Hotel, Cromwell and formerly the popular proprietors of the Post 01 lice Hotel, Queenstown. “A sign'of the times is the amount of horse traffic seen on the roads now- , ad ays,” said Dr Thacker in conversation with a Christchurch reporter. “Over the week-end I saw more horse vehicles on the road between Christchurch and Akaroa in two days than I would ordinarily expect to meet in six weeks.