TRANSPORT LICENSES

Taranaki Daily News, 19 August 1935, Page 10

TRANSPORT LICENSES

SIX GRANTED AT HAWERA. FAT LAMB CARRIAGE DISCUSSED. Six out of seven applications heard by the No. 5 District Transport Licensing Authority at Hawera on Saturday were granted, the decision being reserved in the other. Amendments were made in three of the licenses granted. The applications concerned the carriage of general goods, livestock, mails and newspapers. Messrs. P. Thomson (chairman), J. C. Rolleston and Major R. A. Wilson comprised the authority, with Mr. N, E. Jory as secretary. H. Clerke, carrier, Mokoia, for whom Mr. J. Houston appeared, made application for the renewal of a continuous goods service license in the Mokoia riding of the Hawera county and the Otoia riding of the Patea county, and a license co carry livestock in the same area, and for an extension to include the district between Manaia and Ihaia roads for livestock only. He proposed to use only one lon-y in the Opunake district, said the applicant. The chairman said the question to be decided was whether the present facilities in the district were sufficient. In view of the fact that there was another application for the same district adjourned to Hawera, the chairman expressed the wish to hear the evidence of a representative of the company. At a later stage Mr. F. P. Monaghan, a buyer for the Patea company, gave evidence. He stated that the railway service from Opunake to Patea was inconvenient for getting lambs to the works. He had found Mr. Clerke, who was one of the first carriers of lambs to Patea, most, reliable. He was most ol>liging to the farmers, and handled the stock carefully. Mr. Monaghan told the chairman that he did not consider the present facilities in the Opunake district adequate. To Mr. W. P. Miller (Railway Department) Mr. Monaghan said he sent practically all his lambs from the Opunake district to Patea by road. If the lambs missed a kill there was a loss of 21b. to 31b. in the weight of each lamb. He had taken no test, but could tell from his killing sheets. He preferred road transport, and at times had had. difficulty in getting his demands for transport satisfied.' He did not think that the Patea works could do without the railway. He would not be surprised to learn that in one case part of a draft of lambs transported by rail and held for one day had weighed a pound per head more when killed.

Mr. Miller stated that other companies used the railway extensively for the transport of lambs and were apparently able to compete with the Patea company. To Mr. E. V. Clegg, whose application at Stratford to include the carriage of livestock from Opunake to Patea was adjourned to Hawera, Mr. Monaghan, said that though he did .not know Mr. Clegg, if his company was satisfied with him there would be no objection to his being employed. If they had as good a'season as the last season they would require more carriers, Mr. Monaghan told Mr. Rolleston. The authority’s decision was adjourned until Monday. W. Hayward, Ohawe, applied for the renewal of a continuous goods service license to carry shingle, metal and sand, with an extension to cover the whole of Taranaki. He was represented by Mr. M. J. Burns. Mr. Hayward stated that as he had to operate in a restricted area he could not tender for work outside that area. On the other hand, some of his competitors could come into the district in which he operated. The chairman said that Mr. Hayward would have to establish that his services were required in the district for which he sought- an extension. He asked Mr. Bums whether he could bring further evidence in support of the application. At a later stage the chairman intimated that Mr. Bums had no further evidence, and that the licerise would be renewed without the extension. . The application of W. Hamilton, Ohangai, represented by Mr. R. J. O’Dea, for a continuous goods service license over defined areas was granted on the same terms as last year, with the addition of the right to carry livestock in that part of the Otoia riding of the Patea county west of the Patea River to and from the Patea f reezing works. The application of the Hawera Star Publishing Company for a license to carry newspapers and mails over defined areas was granted, with the deletion, _ as f equested,- of the Hawera-Hurleyville route. ,' Renewals of continuous goods service licenses on the same terms as last year were granted to J. W. Alexander, Ohawe, Hardley and Butler, Hawera, and J. G. Lippingwell, Hawera (deleting the Waverley district of the Patea county). The authority will sit again to-day. “SURPRISE PACKET’ TO-MORROW. “ROBERTA” SEASON ENDS TO-NIGHT A performance of outstanding merit is promised when the curtain rises at the Hawera Opera House to-morrow night' for “The Surprise Packet of 1935,” a production in which those taking part are all amateur performers, many of them being seen in the recent “Aladdin” pantomime. The features of the performance are the dance numbers, which include daring adagio dances, the human spider web, and the staircase ballet. The production takes revue form, and many other novelty numbers will be introduced, including character work by Mr. Newton Mitchell, who portrayed the part of the Widow Twankay in “Aladdin.” The production is under the direction of Miss Marjorie McLaughlin. The music will be supplied by a full orchestra under the baton of Mr. H. C. A. Fox, who has arranged all the orchestrations. The first portion of the evening's programme will be devoted to a screening of “Romance in Manhattan,” starring Ginger Rogers, one of the foremost dancers and revue artists in America today. “Roberta,” the musical comedy featuring Irene Dunne, Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire, will be screened at the Opera House finally to-night. With Miss Dunne singing, Astaire and Miss Rogers dancing. and a bevy of America’s most beautiful girls displaying the latest feminine style creations, the lavish production moves swiftly and tunefully through a most intriguing story. The plot centres about a double romance at Paris, city of colour, and gaiety.