Local and General

Northern Advocate, 8 January 1938, Page 6

Local and General

Guards For Hikurangi P.B. Trucks. At the suggestion of Mr R. Nesbitt it was decided by the North Auckland Power Board yesterday to erect guards for the two trucks of the boar’d operating in the Hikurangi district.

Swam From Paihia To Russell. Three Kaikohe lads have taken to long distance swimming as a duck to water. They are Messrs R. Stanich. E. Robinson and N- Guthrie, who last Monday swam from Paihia to Russell, a distance of 3' miles, in one and a half hours. Joint Poles for Borough and Board Electricity. Yesterday the North Auckland Power Broad approved a letter sent to the Whangarei Borough Council stating that the board desired to use jointly the borough’s poles on the Maunu line from the borough boundary to Dr. Walker’s Hospital. An inward letter had been received from the council requesting this information. Light Injuries From Fall.

When Leonard Bartlett, aged nine, of Onerahi, fell seven or eight feet from the Onerahi jetty, he was fortunate in receiving only slight abrasions. The boy was treated by Dr. D. J. Goodwin and admitted to the Whangarei Hospital. He was suffering mainly from shock and his condition to-day is satisfactory.

Wilson's Quarry To Be “Electrified.” Mr R. Nesbitt indicated yesterday at the monthly meeting of the North Auckland Electric Power Board, that certain houses would come within the board’s area when connections were made with Wilson’s Quarry, Hikurangi. In reply to a question he addressed to Mr T. R. Overton, engineer, it was learned that a contract had been submitted to Mr Wilson, who is to consider it. Mr Wilson’s decision, however, has not yet been received.

Shorts in the City. The residents of some southern cities apparently are not as used to seeing people parading in abbreviated attire as are those of Whangarei. Attired only in shorts, four youths created a stir when they walked up Victoria Avenue, Wanganui, during a busy period recently. The visitors, for they were obviously such, states the “Wanganui Chronicle,” affected to be unmindful of the stares of passersby, but the manner of several of them betrayed a certain amount of selfconsciousness. That this scanty attire was not now to them was revealed by the rich tan which all displayed, and while the youths were criticised for their appearance in public so dressed there were many who sweltered in suits, collars and ties and secretly envied them. Even shoes were dispensed with by the young men, their feet being bare.

The High Commissioner. Some time before Mr W. J. Jordan, High Commissioner, left England to settle in New Zealand he worked for the well-known delivery firm of Carter-Paterson and Company, London. He was a painter, and it fell to his lot to paint the one thousandth van sent out on the roads by the company. Recently Mr Jordan was the guest of honour at an informal luncheon given by the directors of the company, and there were present Mr James Paterson. managing director, the general managers of the London. Midland and Scottish Railway, the London and North-Eastern Railway, the Great Western Railway, and the Southern Railway, and Captain R. G. England, who recently visited New Zealand. Before luncheon Mr Jordan was led to a window. Outside he saw a onehorse delivery van. On it as painted “One Thousand, William Jordan.” It was the van that Mr Jordan had painted years ago!

“Cheap enough lo lose!” That’s how a lady expressed it when told of the cost of the children’s bathing costumes at Henry Wilson’s liquidation sale. These costumes are in great demand, especially just now, when every boy and girl spends every available minute in lac water. Ladies and men’s allwool bathing costumes also in stock, from 5/11.