LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXVI, Issue 17934, 30 July 1920, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Napier tramways returned a profit of £855/3/- on last year’s wonking. According to the vote allocated in the Estimates, the cost of the visit of the members of Parliament, to .Samoa and the Pacific Islands was £8760, not £80,030, as stated in a previous issue. At a special meeting of the (Napier Borough Council on Saturday last to consider the year’s estimates it was reported that last year’s deficiency was £37oo*and the total indebtedness £26.463. A slight increase in rates was decided upon-. A useful piece of information was given the meeting of the Farmers’ Union at Levin on Saturday (says the Chronicle). A delegate stated that the majority of farmers overlooked allowing for depreciation of their fences in making up their income tax returns. This was quite a legitimate ground for making a depreciation allowance, and last year had saved him £46. It is understood (says a Greymouth wire) that the Great Western Timber Company, which was formed to exploit a large bush area in the Okarito district, has applied for protection of the area it is intended to operate. It is also understood that the Crown opposes the application on the grounds that the company has not complied with certain sections of the Mining‘ Act. The schooner C. S. Holme, now in port at New Plymouth, was officially seized on Tuesday morning as the result of a claim for £BOO damages to cargo, allegedly sustained during the vessel's trip from ’Frisco to New Plymouth. The plaintiff is a local merchant to whom a cargo of benzine from ’Frisco was consigned. The “arrest,” as it is sometimes called, of a vessel is somewhat rare, and consists in nailing the warrant on the mainmast by the marshal of the Admiralty Court, in this case the Clerk of the Court, and the vessel can only leave port with his permission. An advertisement in this issue sets out the provisional time-table to take effect to-day on the Wanga-nui-Castlecliff tram route. The timetable allows for trams each way about once an hour, but is for the present largely an experimental one, the future running depending upon its success. The Service will run via Koromiko Road, and the use of the Tramway Board’s engine will allow the lorries at present in use to serve on other routes. The fare will be 4d (minimum) and 6d (maximum), and the trams will stop at the Post Office, Maria Place, Guyton Street, Cemetery corner, Hospital, Gonville Avenue, King’s Avenue, Abbott Street, Junction, Workers’ cottages, Mosstown Road, Brown's corner, Tucker’s corner, Town Belt Road, and Kiosk.