MIGHT EXPRESS SERVICE

Taranaki Daily News, 11 August 1930, Page 6

MIGHT EXPRESS SERVICE

DISAPPOINTMENT OF MINISTER. LETTER TO BUSINESS MEN. Disappointment that the Railway Department was ’unable to persevere with the night express between Taranaki and Wellington was expressed, by the Hon. W. A., Veitch, minister of Railways, in a letter to the Hawera Chamber of Commerce on Friday night. There were present at the meeting Messrs. F. -W, Homer (chairman), C. .Freyberg, P. Bond, E. Dixon, B, McCarthy and R- S. Sago J (secretary), "Unfortunately financial considerations were very pressing,’’' stated the Minister’s letter, “but I am hopeful that when the financial position becomes brighter we may again be in the position to institute this service. It will certainly not be overlooked if an opportunity should arise of giving jt another trial.”

Replying, to a letter from the chamber concerning a suggested extension of the telephone communication at the Hawera police ' station Inspector Fraser advised that the matter had been referred to the police commissioner. In connection with recent burglaries at Hawera the inspector stated,.in answer to a request why the telephone had not been answered, that the .person who had endeavoured to communicate with the station had done so at 3 aan. whereas at 2 aan. Sergeant Henry had received, a. message in connection with an entrance effected into the premises’ of ■ Syme and" Co,. With the constable sleeping at the station and Hie night duty constable Sergeant Henry had been out making inquiries and during the course of his investigations had discovered the door of Messrs. Hodder and Tolley’s premises open. In the special circumstances the inspector thought it was easily understood why the telephone had not been answered. There seemed to be a weakness in the position, said Mr. E- Dixon, especially with the entire staff away from the station. . , Consideration of the letter was deferred until next meeting. FOUNDATION OF HAWERA COUNTY THE GOVERNOR’S PROCLAMATION. A document of interest was read at the monthly meeting of the Hawera County Council on Saturday. It was the text of the original proclamation forming the county of Hawera and appeared in the ’New Zealand Gazette in 1881, No. 61. At that time the boundaries of the county extended almost from Opunake to Stratford in the north and the Manawapou River in the south. Tho proclamation was: Constituting County of Hawera, Pi*ovincial District of Taranaki. Arthur, Gordon, Governor. A Proclamation. In pursuance of the powers vested in mo by the fourteenth, section of The Counties Act, 1876, I, Arthur Hamilton ; Gordon, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, by and with the advice : and consent of the t Executive Council thereof, do hereby proclaim and declare that all that area in the provincial district of Taranaki, bounded towards the north-west from tho ocean by the Taungatara River to its source; thence by a rigat line to the summit of Mount Egmont; towards the north-east by a right line to the source of the Patea River, and ’by that river to the point where is last crosses the confiscation boundary; towards the south-west by the ocean to the mouth of the Taungutara River, the starting point, being portion < f tho County of Patea, shall eonstitu.e a new county, with the beforementioned boundaries, under the name of tho County of Hawera. Given under the hand of His Excellency the Honourable. Arthur Hamilton Garden, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order oi Saint Michael and Saint George, Her Majesty’s High 'Commissioner for the Western Pacific, Governor and Commander-m-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its dependencies, and Vice-Ad-miral of the same; and issued under the seal of the said colony, at the Government House at Wellington, this twentyeighth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred anti eighty-one. THOMAS DICK. Approved in Executive Council; Forster Coring, Clerk of tho Executive Council. God Save the Queen.

PATEA MUNICIPAL LIBERARY. At the monthly meeting of the Patea Public Library Committee, on the motion of Mr. A- T. Christensen, who presided, it wan decided that the committee place on record its regret at the loss sustained by the community by the death of Mr. John Power, and tender the committee’s sympathy to his relatives. Mr. E. F. Warren, executor of the Hunter-Shaw estate, announced that £l5O would be made available to help in defraying the cost of furnishing the new building. A sub-committee was set up to deal with tenders for shelves, tables and other furniture. The building contractors would be finished about the middle of this month, it was reported.