WAIMATE RAILWAY QUARRY AT ARNO

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIV, Issue 21001, 1 April 1938, Page 4

WAIMATE RAILWAY QUARRY AT ARNO

Workers Transferred to Enfield STONE MORE SUITABLE Stone for the harbour protection works at Oaniaru will in future be secured from a newly-opened quarry at Enfield, near Oamaru, instead of from the Arno quarry in the Waimate Gorge, which has been the chief source of supply for the last two years. Tests carried out at Enfield have proved thal suitable rock for the purpose, hard and of sufficient size, can be quarried there successfully. Contrary to rumours, the Arno quarry is not to be closed, said Mr J. G. Heads, district supervisor, but will be used for providing rock for river protection and other work for which smaller stones are suitable. The Arno quarry offers an abundance of very hard rock, but it has the disadvantage of being flaky. In consequence numerous charges fired at the quarry have been disappointing in yielding a disproportionate amount >f rubble. The formation of the rock also makes it unsuitable to stand up to the pounding of the seas on the waterfront. Mr Heads said that a camp is to oe established at Enfield and the 20 men engaged at Arno had been offered employment at the new quarry. Most of them had already decided to go. Much of the plant in use at the local quarry has been shifted to Enfield

POTATO PICKING

WORK DONE BY CONTRACT No inquiries have so far been made at the Placement Office at Waimate for men for potato digging. The work nearly two weeks ago. An officer of the bureau said that most of the fanners in the Studholme and Willowbridge districts had started to dig their potatoes, but most of the work was done on contract. Men who owned digging machines would move from farm to farm and employ the same pickers all the time. Usually the bureau could place men at the work for some weeks, but if more farmers were to have their digging done on contract it was doubtful whether any men would be placed. It was only in the last week of the season that the bureau was able to place men harvesting this year, and It was hoped that if work on the potato crop started early some of the men who could not get harvesting would be placed potato digging.

WOMEN’S INSTITUTE

GROUP MEETING About 80 members attended a meeting of the Waimate Group of Women’s Institutes over which, Mrs P. Grant. Group convenor, presided. Mrs Grant was accorded a vote of thanks for her tireless efforts in the interests of the Institute, also for the beautiful decoration of the stage. The meeting unanimously agreed that a letter of sympathy in her illness and thanks for her work in connection with the A. and P. Show should be sent to Mrs Faulkner. Entertainment for the afternoon was provided by the following Institutes.— Arno, song; Glenavy, song and pianoforte duet; rirawai, pianoforte duet and vocal duet; Waihao Downs, recitation; Waihaorunga, original dramatic sketch.

The competition result" were: Vegetable mould. Miss R. Stokes 1. Plain apron, Miss Jean Hamilton 1. Mrs A. G. Pitts gave a talk on the South Canterbury Drama League, inviting the Institutes to join play reading circles and join up with the Drama League through the Waimate branch.