LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Putaruru Press, Volume XI, Issue 268, 7 September 1933, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A vote of condolence with the family of the late Mr. W. C. Cargill was passed at the meeting of the Thames Valley Power Board on Tuesday.

Mr. N. G. McLeod, chief engineer of the Thames Valley Power Board, has been nominated as president of the New Zealand Power Board Engineers’ Association, which will shortly hold its 'conference in Wellington.

During August the Thames Valley Power Board connected up an additional 103 lighting and heating consumers, 71 motors on farms, 27 water heaters, and 10 electric ranges, while 144 consumers had additional lighting and heating connections made.

Several major matters are set down for discussion at the next meeting of the Putaruru Chamber of Commerce. These include the appointment of justices of the peace, and the cancellation of affiliation with the Associated Chambers of Commerce and the formation of a new association.

‘ Putaruru building stone,” from the quarries at Lichfield, has been specified for the external walls of six upper storeys of the new post office at Dunedin. A contract for erecting this building in three years at a total cost of £292,448 has been let by the Public Works Department, ihe lower two storeys will be faced ■with Bluff granite. Insulators on transformers at Awaiti and Waikino, near Paeroa, were found broken during the month’ due to stone throwing. The police located the boys responsible and lectured the children at the schools, and the parents have made good the damage. On account of the ages of the children being only nine and ten years respectively no publicity could be obtained by prosecution. However, the children were admonished by the police and by their parents, and should not again offend.