TEMUKA.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 18806, 19 February 1931, Page 8

TEMUKA.

BOROUGH FINANCE. Reporting to last night’s meeting of the Temuka Borough Council, the Finance Committee stated that the pay sheet of the district fund account amounted to £833/17/5. The items were chargeable to the several accounts as follows: —General £329/13/8, sanitation £l9, drainage maintenance £lO/4/2, drainage extension £3l/16/6, waterworks interest £315/18/2. fire loan 7d. hospital 4/9. No. 8 loan £139/3/6, street lighting 5/2, waterworks maintenance £7/10/11; a total of £853/17/5. The following sum’, were received during the month: Rates £59/2/3. 10 per cent, penalty £l/9 -. licenses 15/-, motor licenses £l/5/-, cut. sanitary service £3/8/4, relief earthquake grant £25, relief Unemployment Board £4/18/-, sale of plant £l4/10/-, taxi ’phone £l/6/8; a total of £lll/14/3. The balances of the several accounts were as follows: Debit—Water interest £77/16/4, No. 8 loan £2B/6/6, hospital £ls/10/7, street lighting £l3/19/2. water maintenance £lO7/11/1; a total of £243/3/8. Credit—General £322/3/-, drainage maintenance £62/3/8, drainage extension £2B/13/6, Fire Brigade interest £59/4/8; a total of £526/17/11. This left a credit balance of £319/14/3. The report was adopted. STREET WORKS. During the past month the staff of the Temuka Borough Council have been engaged fencing the yard, mowing grass and asphalting footpaths in Gammack, Maude and John Streets. Topdressing has been carried out in Maude, Shaw, Gammack, Wilkin, Denmark and King Streets, Railway Terrace and Ewen Road, kerbing and channelling in Dyson Street, and preparing this footpath for asphalting. Denmark Street from Hornbrook to Gammack Street Ins been tar-sealed with local tar. Grading has been carried out in Denmark and High Streets and North Belt. The sewer outfall and water channels have received attention. A parking notice has been erected on the reserve in Railway Terrace. Shingle and sand have been carted. EARTHQUAKE RELIEF FUND. £ s. d. Previously acknowledged .. 600 15 3 Miss Molly Spillane 0 5 0 Mi- W. McCallum 22 0 Gardiner Bros., Waitohi .. 2 0 0 Mr and Mrs Len Prattley .. 10 0 Winchester collection (per Mr L. H. Orbell) 65 5 0 LATE DAVID ANDREW GyiLD. Deepest sympathy was extended to Mr and Mrs A. R. Guild, “Stratheam,” Temuka, yesterday morning, when it became known that their eldest son, David Andrew, had died in hospital, in Timaru, on Tuesday.

Of a bright and cheery disposition, the deceased, who was only sixteen years of age, had been ill for about two weeks, and his untimely death came as a great shock to his parents, and to his many friends. He was in his third year at the Waitaki Boys’ High School, and besides being regarded as a student with bright possibilities, took a keen interest in various sports.

AMONG THE FISH. “There are plenty of fish. They are rising well, especially in the Opihi, but they are not ‘taking’ at all well,” said Mr F. W. Pellett, ranger to the South Canterbury Acclimatisation Society, to a “Herald” representative yesterday. Mr Pellett said it' was not unusual for fishing to go off at this time of the year, and he thought a reason might be that, berause of the heat of the water, there were larger hatches of flies than usual, and there were a number of flies in rivers that were not in fishermen’s books. The water at present was very warm, and the rising of steam was a sign of this. Questioned as to catches of quinnat salmon, Mr Pellett said he had not heard of any yet. One man had hooked a big fish at the mouth of the Opihi and the fish had "got away” with all his gear. The man stated the fish was a quinnat, but he had not actually seen it. There were no signs of salmon at the Rangitata on Sunday, and a shingle bar was forming there. This would probably account for the nonappearance of the fish, as the fresh water, instead of going straight out to sea where the fish were, was diverted down the coast. The taste of fresh water led the fish in.

Mr Pellett said, in regard to the “trap” for quinnat salmon recently placed in the Opihi, that he hoped the experiment would prove a success. The object, he said, was to prevent the salmon going upstream to the spawning beds, as the presence of salmon there would nullify the natural increase in trout. The Society were guarding against such a condition as obtained in the Rangitata, where the salmon had a free run. The trap was of such a nature that the salmon were not allowed to pass through the wire’s mesh, which was of four inlhes, and sufficient to allow a 41b trout to pass through. The trap was visited a number of times each day, and any trout that had been unable to pass through were assisted. Any salmon caught, however, were killed and given to orphanages. At the hatchery itself, general cleaning up was being done, and all the breeding boxes were yesterday looking very fresh after a coat of tar. The last of the brown and rainbow trout, about three thousand, have been taken from the boxes and placed in a pool in the yard. These were hatched in September. and when of sufficient size will be distributed among the smaller streams. BOWLING. * R. H. Taylor beat W. McCallum in the semi-final of the Temuka Bowling Club’s singles yesterday. He is to play E. J. Chapman to-day, and the winner will represent the Club at the South Canterbury champion of champions to be played in Timaru on Saturday. GENERAL NEWS. Six cows and 13 horses were impounded in Temuka Borough during the past month. PERSONAL. Miss G. Sherborne left Temuka on Tuesday to spend a holiday in Gore. Major Miles (Auckland), is expected in Temuka either to-day or to-morrow

to take charge of the Salvation Army Boys’ Home. The Mayor has sufficiently recovered from his illness to be able to resume his dally occupation. Mr H. T. Armstrong, Dominion organiser for the Reform' Party, was in Temuka yesterday, making arrangements for a meeting of supporters to be held in Temuka next week.

John R. Procter, the Premier Opticians, of Christchurch,, will be visiting Temuka. and may be consulted at the Crown Hotel,, on . Saturday, February 2ist. .......