IN TOWIN AND OUT

Southland Times, Issue 22497, 6 December 1934, Page 4

IN TOWIN AND OUT

NEWS OF THE DAY Price of Eggs. The egg market eased still further during the week and yesterday values wore quoted at 9d to lOd wholesale, and lid a dozen retail. Some merchants report that good supplies of eggs are being purchased from poultry men at 9d a dozen, but others are paying as much as lOd for best fresh eggs. The retail value is steady at lid. » * ♦ ♦ Enthusiastic Superintendent. The enthusiasm of the Superintendent of Reserves (Mr B. P. Mansfield) was favourably commented upon at a meeting of the Invercargill Beautifying Society last night. “Mr Mansfield is certainly a tiger for work; I don’t know when he gets any sleep at all,” remarked Sir Robert Anderson. The chairman (Mr J. B. Thomson) said he had inspected reserves with Mr Mansfield. “I have decided to purchase a bicycle to keep up with in the future, added Mr Thomson with a smile. ♦ * * ♦ Man Missing. An extensive search for the whereabouts of Mr S. A. Lindsay, who has been reported missing, was carried out yesterday. He left his home at 78 Elies road at 10 o’clock on Tuesday morning, stating that although business would prevent him from returning for luncheon he would be home early in the afternoon. The police were advised when he had failed to return by the evening, and his car was found at Awarua, where he has a hut. No trace of the missing man had been found late last evening." The search will be continued to-day. # * • * Royal Show Stock. In order to cope with the extra traffic a special train to carry stock to the Royal Show at Invercargill on December 11, 12 and 13, is to be run by the Railway Department from Christchurch next Saturday leaving at 11.20 a.m. It will also be taking show stock from the North Island which will arrive that morning. A car will be attached for attendants. This train will leave Invercargill on the afternoon of the 13th, and is expected to arrive in Christchurch at 4 p.m. the following day, in time for the northern stock to be loaded on to the steamer. Relic of The Early Days Disappears. An old landmark in the Queenstown district, a large seven-roomed house in the Moonlight Valley, was totally destroyed by fire on a recent afternoon. Formerly owned by “Sandy” Beaton it had been occupied for some time by a party of gold miners working on the Moonlight No. 1 claim in the Moonlight Valley. No doubt many a stirring tale of days of the gold rushes had been recounted within its walls, but now these tales will be told elsewhere. The unfortunate occupants of this old house, set amid the romantic scenes of the early days of 'the province, were left almost as Nature brought them into this world. » ♦ » * Cyclists and City Roads. “We, the following cyclists, hereby petition the City Council to put our gravelled roads into a state suitable for cycle traffic.” In this petition hundreds of Invercargill cyclists are appealing to the council to do something to make the gravelled roads of the city safe for cycle traffic. At the present time, they claim, some of the busiest thoroughfares connecting with the main streets are so loosely and heavily gravelled as to make cycling a danger. “I have seen many cyclists, particularly women cyclists, skid and lose control of, their machines on some of our roads,” said one of the petitioners to a Times reporter yesterday. “The gravel might be all right for the motorists, but it is anything but safe for the cyclist. It is no wonder we see so many cases of cyclists being convicted for riding on the footpaths. They are forced to do this in some streets, for their own protection.” It is understood that the petition will be presented to the council at its next meeting. *

The Eglinton Road. Good progress is being made with the new road up the Eglinton Valley, and by Christmas it is expected that it will reach within easy walking distance of the Homer Saddle, which is the site selected for the entrance of the tunnel to Milford. About 20 men have started on the formation of the road from the Milford side. When the road is completed it is hoped to arrange for a steamer to call at Milford on a regular service. Tourists will be able, if they wish, after seeing Milford, to go back through the Eglinton Valley and round to Lake Manapouri, for Lakes Te Anau and Manapouri are only 12 miles and a-half distant and are connected by road. Ample provision for camping has been made in the valley, special areas having been set aside, and distances from Lake Te Anau may be easily judged, as the road is marked off with posts at every mile. Some of the routes which the road opens up are to Dore’s Pass, Mistake Creek, Upper Hollyford, Homer and Gertrude Saddles, the Howden Hut, Key Summit, Routeburn, via Harris Saddle, Glenorchy or Kinloch to Howden, via Elfin Bay and Howden-Martins Bay. There are good facilities at all these places for campers.