TEMUKA

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20511, 1 September 1936, Page 3

TEMUKA

RATE PAYMENTS LAST DISCOUNT DAY Payments of rates due to the Temuka Borough Council yesterday amounted to £426, the large amount being due to the fact that it was the last day on which discount was allowed on the current year's payments. Figures for comparison with last year’s payments were not available yesterday, but the total amount received at 4.30 p.m. yesterday was £1,367, out of a total struck of more than £4,000. The Town Clerk (Mr L. Butters) said that there might be a few further remittances arriving by post to-day.

KITE FLYING

WARNING ISSUED Kite-flying is at present the premier hobby of the younger folk of the district. In open spaces in the borough, as well as further out in the country, boys took advantage of a steady southwesterly wind yesterday to send their kites up. More than one kite came to an end on telegraph lines in the borough, and Mr S. L. Pocock, chief maintenance officer of the South Canterbury Power Board, stated that he had been troubled considerably with requests for the removal of kites from power poles. In each case he had issued warnings to the children concerned and he had also taken steps to warn others against flying their kites in the vicinity of power lines. In the event of a string becoming entangled with power lines there was a definite danger to the person holding it, and that danger would be intensified if high tension lines were touched or if the weather was damp.

LAND VALUATION

COURT TO SIT IN TEMUKA For one week from September 14 the Land Valuation Assessment Court will sit in Temuka to hear objections in regard to the revaluations in the Geraldine County and adjacent districts. No indication of the number of cases has yet been given.

IRRIGATION SCHEME

FIRST FLOW IN NOVEMBER At the present rate of progress, if conditions remain favourable, the Levels irrigation scheme should be advanced so far by November that it will be possible to try out the main race and laterals 1 and 2, with the first flow of water. For some time the supply will be required to harden up the channels and the scheme, it is expected, will be opened for operation in the summer of 1937-38.

Work at the intake has been advanced recently and a start has now been made on the building of the structure, all efforts up to the present having been devoted to the laying of foundations. Recently the building of the road bridge over the main channel, where it crosses the TemukaPleasant Point road, was completed and work has been steadily advancing on the construction of races and building of bridges.

UNEMPLOYED

MORE MEN ON RELIEF Work for 132 men, the highest total provided for since the introduction of sustenance, has been found by the Temuka borough, Geraldine County and Temuka Domain Board this week. The increase, which numbers 12, has been brought about through extra work being found in the county, which is now employing 85 of the total on relief. The sustenance men number 120 for the week, an Increase of two on last week’s figures.

BASKETBALL

DRAW FOR FINAL GAMES The basketball season in Temuka will be brought to a close with the final games of the first and second grade competitions on Saturday. In the first grade Temuka Young Women and Pleasant Point will play-off at the Presbyterian courts at 3 p.m., the referee to be Mr R. Armstrong, and the match wifi follow Temuka High School v. Clandeboye, at 2.15. The referee for the earlier game will be Miss A. M. Macßean. There are to be no third grade games because the competition has closed, with Pleasant Point the winners.

PERSONAL

Mr A. W. Reid, Palmerston South, spent the week-end in Temuka as the guest of Mr G. A. Paterson. Mr T. Carpenter, Blenheim, is spending a holiday with Mrs T. Lyons, Winchester.

Mr F. H. McKeown, Springfield, is the guest of Mrs R. Taylor, Milford Road, Temuka.

BIBLE CLASS TEA

ST. PETER’S CHURCH With the vicar of Temuka (Rev. L. A. Barnes), presiding, members of the St. Peters’ Young Men’s and Young Women’s Bible Classes held a tea on Sunday evening In the Parish Hall. At the conclusion of the repast, which was of a social nature, there was community singing of hymns. Later the gathering attended the Evensong service in St. Peter’s Church at which a special sermon was delivered by the vicar.

As part of the celebrations for the fiftieth anniversary of St. Mary's (TI-

maru), a rally, to which rriembers of St. Peter’s (Temuka), .have been invited, will be held in Timaru about the middle of September.

GLASGOW LEASES Tenders for sections in High Street, between Raynor and Hayhurst Streets, closed with the Temuka Borough Council yesterday. Two were received and will be dealt with at a meeting of the Council shortly. "SO RED THE ROSE” "So Red the Rose,” Paramount’s screen version of Stark Young’s romantic novel of the South during the eighteen-sixties, comes to-night to the Elite Theatre. A cast of well-knovn names is featured, including Margaret Sullavan, Randolph Scott, Walter Connolly, Elizabeth Patterson, Janet Beecher and Harry Ellerbe. “So Red the Rose” tells the story of a Southern family which faced hardships and struggles in those days when a peaceful country was seared by the flame of war. It also tells the story of a young girl’s love that is tried and tested when the man to whom she is pledged refuses to heed the call of patriotism even though he sees the plight and desperation of his own people. Margaret Sullavan plays the girl, Vallette, a product of the proud South. Randolph Scott plays her sweetheart who refuses to bear arms when the call to war resounds throughout the country.