THAMES TOPICS

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 986, 31 May 1930, Page 10

THAMES TOPICS

A fee of 2s Gd a, day or 7s 6d a week will be charged by the Thames Borough Council for the use of its motorists’ camp site at Tararu. This will include electric light.

Recent frosts have worked havoc upon the feed, and dairy farmers are now feeding out ensilage, of which an enormous quantity was saved this year. The frost has also resulted in the hastening of the process of drying off the dairy herds, most of which were milking much later than usual this season.

Tho Hikutaia Quarries which have been closed for some time have been reopened, the output being used for improving the Thames-Paeroa main highway. This will relieve a certain amount of unemployment, which is as bad in Thames as anywhere else.

Messrs. M. J. Savage, M.P., and Walter Nash, M.P., of the Labour Party have been giving addresses in Thames and are on an organising tour of the electorate.

Thames rather prides itself upon its annual choral festival. This year choirs from Hamilton Cathedral and Paeroa will assist. The Rev. G. R. Monteith, of Turua, will give the address. The festival will be on the evening of June 3.

A large eel found in one of the pumps the other day was the cause of a breakdown in the borough water supply.