CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9978, 8 July 1925, Page 4

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

RECENT ACTIVITIES COMM UNITY LIGHTING. The monthly meeting of tlie Council of the Pahiatua Chamber or Commerce was held last evening. There were present : Messrs P. Tnlloch (president), L. T. Herbert, J. J. Boa gey, \\. H. March, K. I*. Badger, and the secretary, Mr S. K. Siddells. In connection with the proposal to institute community lighting in Alain Street tlie Turavua Power Board wrote advising that tiler would instal the system from Alessrs O’Brien’s corner to the Post Offi'e on one side and from Dawson Street to Mangnliao Road on the other, providing a guarantee of £2B per annum was forthcoming. Tin* initial charge to the individual would l>e £2 per point anj She upkeep for a 60 watt lamp £2 per annum, on a 100 watt lamp £3 |>er annum, payable quarterly in advance. The whole system would In:

regulated from the power house. In summer, the lights would be switched on approximately from 8 p.m. to lO p.m., and in winter from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. The Board suggested that the Chamber appoint a committee to select the shades, and go into the matter in order to obtain the feeling of the shopkeepers. Messrs E. P. Dail-ger, \V. H* Mutch, and W. It. Richard soil werff appointed a committee tor this pur* pose. t

TESTING AND CURLING COWS. The Council of the New Zealand Associated Chambers of Commerce wrote asking the Pahiatua Chantber to support the foil--uing resolution carried by tlie Auckland Chamber of Commerce: — “That this Chamber considers that the testing and systematic culling of dairy cows are the only means by which regular and assured progress can be made*. That is a work of National importance on which largely depends the future prosperity of the burying industry and the welfare oi the Dominion. It heartily supports the request of the New Zealand Herd Testing A’so iation of the Waikato for a subsidy from the Government to enable the work of group herd testing to be carried on efficiently and as expeditiously as possible.” It was agreed to heartily support the motion.