FAIRLIE

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20669, 6 March 1937, Page 3

FAIRLIE

MOTIONS FOR NEXT COUNCIL MEETING REDUCTION OF STAFF Three notices of motion have been forwarded to the Council office by members of the Mackenzie County Council and will come before the meeting next Saturday. The first is contained in a letter from Mr W. R. Davison which reads as follows: “At the next meeting of the Mackenzie County Council, I beg to move that the whole county staff with the exception of Miss B. W. Smart, Miss W. Dick, the county foreman and two grader men be stood down for six weeks; at the end of six weeks, 20 men only to be engaged. Perhaps the remainder of the men could be engaged on the bridge building scheme the Council is about to undertake. While regretting to have to place this motion before the Council, I maintain that if the scheme Is adopted, the financial position will automatically right itself.”

A notice of motion from Mr George Murray reads: “That this Council resolves that it has no confidence in its chairman and engineer.” The third notice of motion is from Mr P. E. Neilson: “That in order to obtain a closer supervision of expenditure for the coming year, a works committee of three be appointed, and that all county works be approved by this committee before being carried out; that a finance committee of three be appointed instead of the full Council as at present.” A. AND P. SHOW As the closing date for the Mackenzie Highland Show is approaching, mere entries are being received by the secretary, Mr J. A. Fraser. Considerable interest is being taken in the competition for the best stacks of oats and wheat, for which Mr P.‘ E. Neilson has given a silver cup valued at £5/5/-. This year entries for the Mackenzie ewe flock competition, which in the past has created much interest, close on March 13. Preparation of the show grounds has commenced, and every effort is being made to have all arrangements completed well before Easter Monday. The reputation that the Show has obtained throughout New Zealand is shown by the fact that entries are already being received from such places as Auckland, Dargaville and Greymouth. SCHOOL BUS ASHWICK MAKES APPLICATION At a meeting of the Ashwick Flat School Committee over which Mr J. Salt presided, it was decided to give all the support possible to the proposal for conveying Allandale and Ashwick Flat secondary pupils to the Fairlie District High School by bus. An application for a bus is to be forwarded to the Board, on the same lines as the one forwarded by the Allandale committee last week. GENERAL Sister Anna Kirkwood, organising secretary of the New Zealand Presbyterian Young Women’s Bible Class Union arrived in Fairlie yesterday morning, and addressed a meeting of the P.W.M.U. in the afternoon. The Mackenzie Highland Pipe Band has entered for the C grade pipe band contest to be held at Timaru on Easter Saturday. Recently the band lost two

of its leading pipers, but it is hoped to have them replaced in time for the contest. Fred Mac Murray and Joan Bennett play the leading roles in Paramount’s “Thirteen Hours by Air,” an exciting story of murder and Intrigue on a trans-continental transport plane, which will be screened at Fairlie tonight at 8.15. Good supports will be screened.