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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18819, 24 September 1935, Page 4

The report thni Mr. L. M. Clieriton has been .appointed manager of the Chateau Tonga riro at National Park was denied in oilicial quarters at Wellington. It was stated that Mr. Cheriion, who had been manager of Glade House, Lake Te Amin, for the past 10 years, lias been appointed to the newlycreated position of works manager at tho Cha<cau, and that the appointment did not affect the managership. Can a landowner fish on his own property without a license? The Matamale branch of the Auckland Acclimatisation Society has decided to write to the Auckland council in order to ascertain the position as to whether a man could fish on his own property without a license where there was no fishing reserve- and also the legal rights where there was a reserve.

With the completion of negotiations 'elween the Government and the Auckland City Council for the placing, of a street through the block on which the old .Sborthmd street post office now stands, arrangements are being made for tbe. erection on the remainder of the l-lock of the new Government office building which was foreshadowed in the 1 °3l Estimates. It will be an eightslorey structure, costing something over CIOJ.OOO. and the necessary demolition ■ind early construction work will lie put in band almost immediately.

In view of the commencement of airliner express services in the Dominion shortly, ii is interesting to notice that three points in the province are concerned in the progressive move to lie undertaken, writes a Palmerston North correspondent. Plans are now being prepared for a suitable aerodrome at Levin covering approximately 80 acres. An additional emergency landing ground is proposed at Waikanae. At present 1 10 men are working on the landing field at Milsmi, and it. is anticipated this number will be increased to 200 very shortly.