In and About KAITAIA

Northland Age, Volume IX, Issue 16, 28 November 1939, Page 3

In and About KAITAIA

Purely Personal Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Langley left it the weekend on a short visit to Auckland. Mrs. J. Archibald is visiting her larents in the South Island. Mr. and Mrs. O. D. Price left the iistrict cn Monday, Mr. Price having iceepted a position at Hamilton. Progress of the Tar Sealing Even though the contractors have nr.de fair progress with the tar sealng' of the Awamui-Kaitaia main hig'hvay it is certain that they will not >e anywhere near finished by the end if the month as there is still formaion work to be done to various secion of the road before the sealing :nr. be completed. At the corners at Donald’s road and Puckey’s the build-ng-up work has been renewed with he grader ar.d further loads of metal lave been spread. It appears that :he contractors intend to seal the straight stretches first before’ turning :heir attention to the bends. Metal has been laid over the first joating on the entire stretch from Awanui to Kaitaia and has made a perfect, surface, a luxury which is low being enjoyed to the utmost by •oad-Users who have been accustomed n the past to a rough, dusty highway. Householders on that route have also /oiced their appreciation of their Tcedom from the dust nuisance

Aberdonians can stand any amount of chaff nobody expects them to stand anything else. * * * To the troops at the front their German opposite numbers are now known as “Adolfs” instead of the old “Jerry” or “Fritz.” * * * “Europe may be destined to be battered into’ destruction. Then the work of reconstruction must begin, and something must be created more seemly, more just, more Christian than any social system than man has hitherto contrived to devise. Wars always beget revolution.”—“Church Times.” *■ * * Messrs. Thomas De La Rue and Co., Ltd., who supply New Zealand and a large part of the British Empire with postage stamps, made a profit last year of £248,000.

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