GENERAL NEWS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18499, 21 February 1930, Page 8

GENERAL NEWS

The Borough Council staff have completed tar-sealing Church Street over its entire length.

At a meeting of the committee of the New Zealand Metropolitan Trotting Club, a donation of £SOO was made to the Cancer Research Fund.

For riding cycles at night without lights, Henry Depree, John Wilson, Stanley Watt and Norman Charteris, were each fined 10/- and costs, by Mr C. R. Orr-Walker, S.M., yesterday.

At the Police Court yesterday, before Mr C. R. Orr-Walker, S.M.. a statutory first offender, charged with drunkenness, who was bailed out for 10/-, was fined the amount of his bail.

Owing probably to the inclement weather that has been experienced this summer, outside grown cucumbers have been very scarce. Other market garden produce is plentiful, the vegetables being well-grown and firm.

The bumpy state of the intersection of Church and Stafford Streets was referred to at last night’s meeting oi the South Canterbury Automobile Association, and it was decided to ask the Borough Council to improve conditions there for traffic.

The Temuka District High School held its annual picnic at Timaru yesterday, 743 visitors arriving by special train. Although the day was dull, the visitors spent an enjoyable time at Caroline Bay, the Park, and in sightseeing about the town.

Members of the Newspaper Proprietors’ Association and the New Zealand Section of the Empire Press Union, who assembled in Timaru yesteray, are to leave for the Hermitage to-day, where the annual meeting of the • respective organisations will be held.

Bag snatchers have been active in Wellington streets during the past fortnight, and three cases have been reported to the police of women having had purses torn from their hands. In two instances the bags contained only small amounts of money, but one woman lost £l4.

Although information has been received that the price of butter in Wellington has dropped a penny per pound, a reporter was informed by a Timaru merchant yesterday that so far no reduction had tjaken place locally, separator butter still selling at 1/4 lb, and factory at 1/7 and 1/8.

The secretary of the South Canterbury Automobile Association (Mr E. A. Scott) stated at Jast night’s meeting of the executive that he had eleven claims under the Association’s insurance scheme, all of which had arisen out of motorists being forced on to their wrong side of the road owing to a wrong conception of the “off-side” rule.

Extensive alterations are being carried out on the main south road between Shag Point and Palmerston, where several bad bends are being obviated. One of the smaller deviations was opened to traffic on Tuesday, but it is expected it will be some time before the main alteration is completed.

Although the Timaru fishing fleet experienced a rough trip home from the fishing grounds on Wednesday last, the supply of fish still continues to be plentiful. Soles and groper are bringing lOd lb, and flounders 1/- lb. Smoked fish remain at their usual prices. The firs; shipment of oysters from Bluff is expected to arrive at Timaru abput March 3.

Genuine greengage plums are now appearing on the market, but crops of this variety do not last for any time. The supply of bananas, oranges and grape fruit has become more regular, and prices remain much the same from week to week. Local grape growers have been keeping the market well supplied during the week with their products, but hothouse tomatoes, locally grown, are almost unprocurable. Supplies are being received, however, from the north, prices being from 4d to 8d lb.

The nuisance caused by cyclists leaving their machines outside the skating rink in Stafford Street in such a way that they are likely to obstruct traffic, was referred to at last night’s meeting of the executive of the South Canterbury Automobile Association, by Mr J. M. Jenkins, who stated that on a recent evening a woman motorist had run over a bicycle which was lying partly on the road. The machines were sometimes parked haphazardly, and there was loom for considerable improvement. It was decided to draw the attention of the authorities to the matter.

The stone fruit market is in a precarious position. Owing to a short supply of this fruit coming to hand, prices are correspondingly higher, with apparently no great reduction in sight for some time. Freestone peaches are expected shortly, and this will relieve the position somewhat in regard to this kind of fruit. The apricot season is nearly over, and nectarines are in short supply. Retail prices range between 4a to lOd lb for all classes of stone fruit. Prices for jam-grade stone fruit are exceptionally high, due to there being very little procurable at present.

The water-front yesterday presented an extremely busy appearance, with threes.overseas liners, the Port Denison, Golden Cloud, and the Canadian Challenger in port. Besides these, three coastal boats, the Waipiata, Storm and Progress, were discharging and loading cargo. Including the Cumberland, which sailed early yesterday morning, the aggregate tonnage of the boats in port yesterday was 23,171 tons. All available wharf hands were absorbed, in fact a considerable number of extra hands could easily have been employed. To-day the Coptic and the AngloCanadian, are expected to arrive.

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