HAWERA MUNICIPALITY

Taranaki Daily News, 18 July 1933, Page 8

HAWERA MUNICIPALITY

MONTHLY MEETING OF COUNCIL. SECTIONS LET TO UNEMPLOYED. On the recommendation of the general committee last night the ' Hawera Borough Council granted three men the use of sections for garden purposes at a nominal rental, the whole of each section to be cultivated. The committee also recommended that tenders for painting various borough buildings be accepted and this course was decided upon. A donation of £2 2s was received from the June 2 hockey tournament committee. . Cr. R. M. Rickard reported that the entrance to the cemetery had been, cleaned and this gave a pleasing appearance. All the old stumps had been removed by the caretaker and . practically all the green shrubs had been neatly cut. The dirty corner leading into the park was tidied and the caretaker was to build a 7ft fence across the back of his property to hid the tool sheds. The material and iron for building this would be obtained from the caretaker’s cow shed. The seats in the cemetery had been painted. The report of the parks committee was adopted. The committee agreed to the high school having the use of the park tennis courts for an hour on Tuesday, lunch hour on week-days except Wednesdays on the four back courts and the same courts after school hours until club members arrived. The school was to provide nets for the two courts which were used only by the school and on Saturdays and during school holidays these were the only courts to be used. The foreman (Mr. J. Rowe) reported that the usual maintenance work had been done. Timber supports have been placed under the iron sewer pipe near the outfall Considerable trouble had been experienced during the month owing to blow-outs of sewer pipes in the locality. There was difficulty in making repairs as the pipes were overloaded owing probably to surface water. The entrance to the abattoir had been patched. A portion of Caledonia Street flank had been graded and ten loads of clinkers spread. Cinders were spread on Nolantown paths and Waihi Road path. All fire-plugs were 'inspected and cleaned and a new plug was fitted up on fire main near the' opera house. Spoil from flanks and shoulders of streets had been deposited in the gully in Cameron Street to widen the path, and it would ba practicable to widen it to the full width gradually, there being sufficient material on the streets to do this. A concrete path has been laid at the women’s rest room costing about £7 12s. The parking area on Glover Road had been metalled, the county council supplying 126 yards of metal. Cracks in paths in Grey, Cambria, Wellington and Erin Streets had been filled. The librarian (Miss H. C. Carson) reported that receipts for the month were £3B 6s 7d, as against £3O 13s 7d in June, 1932. Subscribers numbered 519 adult, 227 juvenile and 34 intermediate, compared with 571 adult and 196 juvenile at the same time last year. Issues, with the 1932 figures in parentheses were: Adult, 6203 (6664); juvenile, 679 (700). There was a nett increase of 78 members during the month. The gift of a volume from Mr. E. J. Yearbury was acknowledged. Abattoir fees were £96 18s 3d,. £3 17s 7d less than in the same month last year, it was reported, but the fees for the current year were £7 Is 8d ahead of last year’s. The Mayor (Mr. J. E. Campbell) presided and councillors present were Messrs. W. G. Strange, W. G. Walkley, A. Reid, A. K. North, W. R. Butler, E. K. Cameron, W. J. Bright, L. H. Clapham and R. M. Rickard. HAWERA HOSPITAL BOARD. PATIENT SHOWS APPRECIATION. The Hawera Hospital Board met yesterday. Appreciation of the kindness extended to him while he was in hospital was expressed in a letter from Mr. E. Cann. The medical superintendent, Dr. J. Caimey, reported that' there were 75 patients in hospital at the beginning of June and 64 at the end. The daily average of occupied beds was 65.5 and the average to each of the nursing staff was 2.3. Nineteen hospital and ten private X-ray cases were dealt with. In the physio-therapeutic department 431 patients were attended, and in. the outpatient department 472 treatments were given. The engineer, Mr. M. Smith, reported that the stand-by lighting plant was used twice during the month and had proved its necessity. Mr. J. Mitchell reported that there were 16 inmates in the Old People’s Home, where a concert had been given by the Hawera Scottish Society. There were present at the meeting Messrs. J. S. McKay, E. J. Gifford, W. G. Simpson, S. J. Bennett, E. A. Washer, A. L. Campbell, A. G. Larcom, F. Gillanders and Dr. T. H. A. Valin tine. MID-WEEK HOCKEY GAMES. REFEREES IN SOUTH TARANAKI. Referees and fixtures for to-morrow’s hockey games in South Taranaki are:— Seniors: Manaia v. Egmont at Manaia, Mr. A. Jackson; Alhambra v. Hawera at Hawera, 3 p.m., Mr. E. Fryer. Juniors: Egmont A v. Manaia, at Hawera, 1.30 p.m., Messrs. E. Fryer and V. Winter; Whakamara v. Tokaora at Whakamara, Mr. L. E. Christie; Hawera v. Egmont B at Hawera, Mr. A. Ryan. PORT OF PATEA. July 17: In port, m.v. Inaha; under overhaul, m.v.’s Hawera and Kapuni. High water to-day: 7.4 a.m. and 7.33 p.m. OPERA HOUSE TALKIES. “MADAME BUTTERFLY.” "Madame Butterfly,” Paramount’s modem screen version of the romantic story of the Japanese geisha girl, is the attraction at the Opera House tonight and to-morrow night. Sylvia Sidney, diminutive star of “Ladies of the Big House,” has the title role. The film, which is set against a rich background of music from the Puccini opera, centres around the romance between an American naval officer, played by the popular Cary Grant, and Madame Butterfly. Meeting accidentally they fall in love and are married in Oriental fashion. After several months of much happiness, Grant is forced to return to America, promising to return. He does, but under entirely different circumstances—circumstances that lead to an unusual, dramatic climax. The booking is already heavy ’ for this attraction.