News Of The Day

Northern Advocate, 7 June 1944, Page 4

News Of The Day

WHANGAREI WEATHER Barometer. 8 a.m Steadv, 30.05 in. Temperature, 8 a.m 45dec, Rainfall Record Fall in Whangarei ("Advocate” gauge), 24 hours ended 8 a.m. today' 73 in. Total for June 1.92 m. Rainfall for year to date 39.92 in. Average rainfall for June 7.22 in. Average- annual rainfall G2.BBin Town Wharf Tides Wed., 7th: 8.29. 9.4; Thurs.. Bth: 9.15. 9.49; Fri., Sth: 1C.2. 10.35; Sat.: 1C.50, 11.20: Sun., 11th: 11.38. 12.9; Mon.: 12.26, 12.41; Tuer., 13th: 12.56, 1.18. Sunrise and Sunset Wed., 7th: 7.27, 5.12; Thurs.: 7.23, 5.11; Fri., 9th: 7.28, 5.11; Sat., 10th: 7.29, 5.11; Sun., 11th: 7.29, 5.11; Mon.: 7.30. 5.11; Tues.. 13th: 7.30, 5.11. Phases of Moon June Time Full Moon 7 6.58 a.m. Last Quarter 14 3.56 a.m. New Moon 21 5.0 a.m. First Quarter 29 5.27 a.m. Notable Anniversary Today is the 27th anniversary of the opening of the battle of Messines in which the First N.Z.E.F. played a prominent part. K * *» Approve Amalgamation Approval of the Northland hospital amalgamation scheme as outlined by the Minister for Health (Hon. A. H. Nordmeyer) during his recent tour was given by the Whangaroa Hospital Board at Monday's special meeting. Details of the scheme, for which the Minister requested secrecy, were discussed. * n »!« * Kaikoh<»*s “Bansiiee M "Makes you fed there’s a town where business is being done." was the consensus or opinion at last nignt’s Kaikohe Cnamber of Commerce meeting on Ihe new eight o’clock sinm. wnieli has been oper at mg for about a week. With no mean volume of shrill noise, Lie siren startles Kaikche’s citizenry not only at eight o’clock bm at midday, one o’clock, and again at five o’clock every week-day. The chamber decided to thank the ’town Board for installing it. and Mr. F. J. Williams for operating ii.

Uikurangi Dairy Co.’s Output Closing tfro season at the end of May, the Hikurangi Dairy Company has manufactured 2225 tons of butter for the 12 months, an increase ol' 176 tons over the 2049 ions cf the previous season. This represents an increase of tits per cent , while for the month of May. ihc increase over that oi the previous May was 127 per cent. With the cold weather now prevailing the supply is falling of I rapidly. It is expected that, the annual report and balance sheet of die company will ho in the hands of suppliers before the end of the month and that the annual meeting will bo held at Hikurangi next month.

IlaM Showers With die cold weather that has boon experienced in Whangarei during tire past few days, and tire south-westerly squalls that blow up, hail has been almost, a common occurrence. Each day this week hail has fallen, commencing on the King's Birthday on Monday. During the pasi 24 hours ending at nine o’clock this morning, Lssin. of rain foil in Kaikohe, this bringing the fall for the month, so far, to over kin. Strong westerly winds, with hail showers, blow ell yesterday, and this wind constituted a danger to motor traffic on exposed roads.

Kaitaia Rainfall Kaitaia rainfall for the month of May toiallecl aim, consisting of 14 days cf ram. Well above the average May rain tall for Kaitaia, the fall was l.Gain. in excess of the rainfall for Ihe corresponding month last year. The wettest 24 hours was on May 26, when a iraclion under l'-ffn. were recorded. The district, particularly the lowlying land surrounding Kaitaia, is deriving much benefit from the heavy rainfall. An indication of the unusual climate in the Far North this year is provided by a peach-tree which, situated in the Kaitaia town district, is in full blossom, z

Confidential Information As the Whangarei Chamber of Commerce took an intense interest in townplanning, ii stated in a letter to the Whangarei Borough Council last night, it asked if the council could disclose information concerning what the town-plan-ning committee had in view concerning the proposed bus terminal and also the site for the central post office. The Mayor (Mr. W. Jones) said that the council could not disclose the proposed location of the central post office, as the information from the Government was confidential, and the question of a bus terminal could net. be decided until the Government’s decision was confirmed. It was decided to advise the chamber to this effect, and that when information was available the chamber would be notified.

Oncralii Road Improvement “The time has come to deal with the dangerous corner known as the Bluff, on the Onerahi Road, near the town basis," said Cr. H. W. James at the monthly meeting of the Whangarei Borough Council. Traffic on the road was increasing, and would increase and spoil could be used for the borough refuse dump. It was decided that the engineer (Mr. I. A. Cromie) should report on what improvements could be made. Cr. D. L.~ Ross drew attention to the dangers of the footpath ending suddenly in the vicinity of the bluff, and the engineer was also instructed to report on a safeguard, and also on, the condition of the road, at the borough boundary mentioned by Cr. R. J. N. Crosby.

House, Street Numbers Suggesting that numbers on houses should be of standard size and placed on gateposts in a uniform and prominent position, the branch secretary of the Auckland Road Transport and Motor and Horse Drivers and Assistants’ Industrial Union of Workers wrote to the Whangarei Borough Council last night. Tiie names of streets should be in a uniform position at each end of the intersection of streets and in a uniform place, prefer ably on a telephone or power-pole, whichever was tin; nearest to the corner, the union suggested. The Mayor said the question had been before the council before, but the difficulty had been manpower and material, but £25 had been already provided for the purpose on this s'ear's estimates.

More Kaikohe State Houses Immediately the present group of eight or nine State houses building in Bisset Road, Kaikohe, are completed it is intended to go on with the construction of a further eight houses on the Housing Department’s property along the Mangakahia Road, where it is eventually planned , to erect '2B dwellings. Both materials and lab our constitute the main difficulty towards what Mr H. F. Guy called Kaikohe’s greatest need of the moment. ‘•Housing,” he added at last night’s Chamber of Commeice gathering, ’’will solve Kaikohe's growing pains.”

Read Deterioration

.January alone excepted, rainfall in the Middle North has exceeded the average every month. As a conse quence, almost every road in the North —county road and main highway alike—is showing extreme signs of disrepair. Hardly a road in the Bay of Islands, Whangaroa or Hokianga is easy travelling at the present time, and unless a tremendously increased amount of labour and machinery is employed, it appears that many will be only barely usable by motor traffic by the end of the winter. But 30 years ago they were probably worse I