THE Temuka Leader SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1929. NEWS OF THE DAY.

Temuka Leader, Issue 10462, 26 October 1929, Page 2

THE Temuka Leader SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1929. NEWS OF THE DAY.

At the present time a gang of men have been ‘ employed grading and otherwise preparing a footpath in Denmark street from Hamilton street to the railway gates. The last stage of the formation was commenced yesterday, when a team of horses and a grader ■ were forming a path from Railway Terrace to the railway. In this connection, it is interesting to recall that not a lew fatal accidents have occurred at this spot, and there have been several narrow escapes from injury. The fact that the iron grain store obscures the view of pedestrians of trains coming from the south is, of

course, an added danger; , but the question may reasonably be asked: Is it wise to construct a footpath in close proximity to the shed? This will practically compel people to walk close to the building and at periods when the shed is full of grain the sound of a train approaching from the south will be considerably deadened, and those who have not the keenest of hearing, especially old people, will be running a very grave risk. Of course, one realises that warning bells are rung ! when trains are due, but these are not always heard, which is chiefly due to so many distracting noises.

In connection with Labour Day, a counter delivery of all classes of correspondence will be made at Temuka. from 7 to 8 p.m. to-day.

Train arrangements and special excursion fares in connection with the Timaru A. and P. Show on October 31, are announced by the Railway Department in this issue.

The weather at Geraldine since the rainy spell at mid-week has been very cold." Only 34 points of rain fell, and on Thursday night a sharp frost was registered which blackened young potato tops, tomatoes and beans.

Mr A. C. Palmer will sell Mr G. H. Watson’s farm of 58 acres, situated at Kakahu, at his rooms, Temuka, on Tuesday next.

The meeting of the Temuka Bicycle and Athletic Club Committee advertised for yesterday evening has been cancelled, and a meeting has been convened for Wednesday evening, 30th inst., in the Fire Brigade Rooms.

The annual "Shop Day” and appeal for funds to carry on the work of the Plunket Society in the Temuka district, will be held on November 19. The president (Mrs E. C. Paterson) makes an appeal for cash donations and for gifts of produce.

The United Bands’ art union was drawn in Mr D. White’s office, Temuka, on Thursday, the prize being an art cushion. The lucky number was 921, the holder being Miss J-ean Black, P.O. Box 30, Orari.

The Postmaster at Temuka. (Mr W. Baxter) advises that the next mail for the United Kingdom and Europe, via Australia, due at London on December 1, will close at the Temuka Post Office on Tuesday, October 29, at 4 p.m. The next inward mail, via Vancouver, is due at Temuka on November 5.

Mr A. C. Palmer announces that the usual auction sale will be held in The Rialto, Temuka, this afternoon, commencing at 1.30. In addition to the usual sale of pigs and poultry, a horse, a motor car, farm and garden implements, also produce, harness and household furniture will be offered.

Silver Band taxis will leave the Central Garage on Monday, for the Oamaru races, returning after the last race.

The British Pavements Company is at present engaged putting the finishing coat on the road in the borough of Geraldine, which they undertook in conjunction with the County Council. At noon yesterday the stretch from the traffic bridge to the Peel street intersection with Talbot street was finished, and the contractors moved their machinery to the opposite end of the borough to complete the southern portion of the work.

Colonel Dawson, Chief Health Officer for Canterbury, together with Senior Inspector Kershaw and Mr J. Menzies, Health Inspector for South Canterbury, were in Temuka on Thursday, in connection with a conference with the Temuka Dairy Company directors which was held to discuss the question of the pollution of the stream which runs past the factory. Mr T. D. Burnett, M.P., was also present, and presided. It Is understood that the conference was adjourned to a date early in the New Year.

Mr C. E. Bremner, County Engineer, Geraldine County Council, invites tenders in this issue for erection of a public pound at Temuka. Tenders will close at noon on Saturday next. The bulbs of some daffodils exhibited at the Horticultural Hall, London, recently, are valued at from £2O to £3O each. Old furnaces and iron and copper mines have been discovered by a British expedition in the. south-west of Petra, in Arabia.

Twenty-six points of rain were registered at Temuka on Wednesday morning, and nine points on Thursday morning, which will prove very refreshing to the parched ground. This will also prove very welcome to the farmers, as they have been hoping for rain for the past three or four weeks, owing to the very dry condition of the soil and the lack of growth of the shallowrooted plants. Gardeners, too, have been longing for rain, and the only fault is that sufficient has not fallen.

A severe frost was experienced in Temuka yesterday morning, some seven degrees being registered by Mr W. Goodman. At daylight the surface of the ground was white, and almost resembled a snowstorm. Potato growers who go in for early potatoes are heavy losers, as in almost every instance where the tubers were exposed they are cut to the ground. Even in cases where the usual precautions of spraying the plants with water were adopted, they were of no avail. Tomatoes, too, suffered. In some cases where these were uncovered, the frost took heavy toll, one grower losing the whole of his plants. Stone fruit has also suffered, and some flowers are seriously affected.