LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Thames Star, Volume LXV, Issue 18244, 18 July 1931, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Clifford Bay Terminal. "It is a nonsensical proposal," said a former sea captain, when asked in Christchurch for an expression of opinion as to the suitability of Clifford Bay as a terminus for the South Island Main Trunk railway, '

Wetter than Inglewoodl This month Eltham appears to be as wet or even wetter than Inglewood of all places! (says the Argus). Up to 7 aim. on Tuesday the local rainfall reporter, Mr R. B. Foord, had taken count of 701 points of rain so far this month. This is the wettest half month Mr Foord has ever had the doubtful joy of recording. Inglewood's quota for the first 12 days of this month was just over six inches.

It's no good grumbling, Father, even if Mother did give away your second best suit to the Clothes Drive. It is time you had a new one, anyway, and it went in a good cause. You can get your other suit dry-cleaned and pressed, and slip down and have a look at the new spring patterns at the tailor's. What tailor? Why, where else would you go but to Jorge nsen's.*

Floodgate Experiment. An interesting experiment is to be made by the Hauraki United Drainage Board in connection with leaking floodgates. It is the intention of the board to obtain some sheets of rubber from Jin to 2in thick and to affix these in strips along the side and bottom edges of the floodgate flaps so that a watertight gate will be made. The board has not so far been able to procure the necessary rubber sheets in New Zealand, and intends to indent them. Though this is a new departure for New Zealand the idea has been in operation for many years In Holland. There the first flaps were edged with leather (mainly porpoise hide), which later gave way to rubber when that commodity became better known. The floodgates at the various dykes at the edge of the Zuyder Zee have had these attachments for centuries, and they have proved most efficient.