LOCAL AND GENERAL

Northern Advocate, 7 December 1935, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The High ExtSs?.mge and Steel. “It is impossible at present,” said Mr T. R. Overton at yesterday’s meeting of the North Auckland Electric Power Board, “to buy steel from England. The Australian product has a 25 per cent, advantage over the English, and, although we would all prefer to buy from England, the disparity, as a result of the high exchange, is too great, and, at the present, practically nothing but Australian is being used in New Zealand for reinforcing purposes.” 1.0. Anniversary. Deputations from the Whangarei, Hikurangi and Waimamaku lodges, 1.0. (N.Z.) were present at the fortieth anniversary celebrations of the Northern Wairoa Lodge, No. 56, held last The gathering, which was at the Coronation Hall, Te Kopuru, was a memorable one. Three of the foundation members —Messrs E. Warmington, H. Fowler and E. Walton are still on the lodge roll, and last night Mr Warmington told many interesting anecdotes of early days in the lodge. The toast of the Grand Lodge of New Zealand was proposed by Bro. R. R. Roseman, D.D.G.M., and that of Foundation Members by Bro. F. Mogford, P.D.D.G.M. The visitors were treated to supper, with Dargaville’s pride, toheroa soup, well to the fore.

Motor Cars Wanted. The North Auckland Electric Power Board will require, when in operation, about 15 motor vehicles. A start is to be made with two cars, two half-ton trucks and a three-ton truck and trailer, and on Friday the engineer was authorised to procure prices to submit to the next meeting of the board in January. j Pigeons for Nelson. I Twelve pigeons for the Nelson | Homing Club were released at 5.30 o’clock this morning by Mr N. Dickey, j of Whangarei. The birds were for- > warded by rail to Whangarei and housed by Mr Dickey in his loft un- j til the time for the race. The pigeons j circled once over the town before j heading in a slightly westerly direc- ! tion. ! Power Station Site, | The Public Works Department has | secured four acres of land at Wairere, on Mr C. Wilson’s property, for the purpose of erecting the main power station for supplying the Otamatea and Rodney Counties with current. The land is on the corner of the Wairere and Mareretu-Paparoa Roads and is about two miles north of Paparoad on the main road to Whangarei. A Novel Method. A novel method of deciding who was to be the successful tenderer for a £ISOO contract was adopted by the North Auckland Electric Power Board at its meeting yesterday. The engineer, Mr T. R. Overton, reported that he had received four tenders for the supply of steel for reinforcing concrete, poles, and, as they were all the same price and obviously from the same source in Australia, he was unable to decide which one to accept. He recommended the names to be put in a 1 hat and one drawn out. This was done i and the name drawn by a representative of the Press was Wingate Ltd., who are indebted to this gentleman for a £ISOO job. Sick Man Flics to Church.

Flight-Lieutenant Tommy Rose, this year’s winner of the Cup- air race, left his sick bed at his u home at Woodley, Berkshire, on a recent Sunday and flew to Sywell aerodrome to attend the annual sportsmen’s service at Earls Barton (Northamptonshire) Parish Church. He was still suffering from the effects of a bad cold, and he read the lesson in a husky voice. , Ben Foord, the boxer, read the other lesson. Apologising for the absence of Larry Gains, the coloured boxer, the vicar (the Rev. L. A. Ewart) said he should have realised that two boxers who were to me.et each other in the ring, Foord and Gains, should not be brought together before the fight. It was a breach of etiquette, he commented. Architect for Power Board.

The appointing of an architect to the North Auckland Electric Power Board caused a long discussion at yesterday’s meeting. The engineer, n. Mr T. R. Overton, recommended that the services of an architect be obtained in an advisory capacity. Mr W. D. Collins said there should be some method of procedure to finalise the matter, and he thought applications should be called for the position. Other members, however, were of the opinion that local men should be appointed and the abilities of Mr A, P. Morgan, of Whangarei, were lauded by Mr J. N. McCarroll, who moved that Mr Mbrgan be appointed. This motion, however, did not meet with the approval of other members, and Mr Collins moved that applications for the position be called and submitted to the board. This proposal found the biggest number of supporters and after a long discussion was finally carried.

Northern Butter Brand.

The competition promoted by the Whangarei Co-op. Dairy Company to assist in finding a name for North Auckland butter, when the output of factories is pooled under the new marketing scheme next season, resulted as follows: —Mrs N. R. Lilley, Ruatangata, 1; Miss Ann Finlayson, Eipiwai, 2. Twenty-one entries were received, and the adjudication was made by the chairman, Mr E. S, Tremaine. All companies aye most anxious to arrive at a suitable name, realising that upon the title, the popularity of our butter overseas is dependant to some extent. At the meeting of the Whangarei Company last week, a shareholder said that there would be no antipathy to an article with a Maori name on the English market. He pointed out that the most sought after brand of bread at Home was named “White Chief,” which had the picture of a tattooed Indian on the wrapper. The winning title has not been released.

Our readers are advised to make their Christmas purchases at Henry Wilson’s sale of, Benjamin’s stock, Newmarket. The sale .is conspicuous for its wonderful series of bargains, and the public would be well advised to take full advantage of the savings while available,

The annual entertainment given by the children of the Whangarei Infant School is to take place in the Parochial Hall this year. This will give more scope for the very fine programme of folk dancing and eurythmics which is to be presented. 685 Wrestling.

Wong Buk Cheung will meet George Walker in a wrestling match at Whangarei next week. Wong Buk Cheung is one of the best matmen in New Zealand today and has defeated Billy Meeske, Harban Singh and Ja Miro. He has the reputation of being a hard, spectacular wrestler, and avoids showmanship. In an interesting bout at Palmerston North, which concluded in the eighth round, Walker beat Cheung by two falls to one, but the deciding fall was a lucky one for Walker. It was one of the best bouts seen in Palmerston North for some time. There will be five amateur bouts, the principal of which will be a bout for the welter-weight title between G. Mischewski (holder) and N. Boyd (challenger).