TAIHAPE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 223, 21 September 1936, Page 3

TAIHAPE

C AMP SITE. The Taihape Borough Council has decided to spend over £(00 on providI ing a modern motor camp site, which, •when completed, should compare favourably with that of any otner town of a considerable size in New Zealand. The plans for the buildings to be elected on the camp site provide lor a cook-house and tne installation of showers and electric light, etc. The cost of the buildings and equipment will be £509, while a further £2OO odd will be expended on road access and drainage. Mr. A. Murray, consulting engineer, submitted the following report on the camp site at Friday’s meeting of the Borough Council:— The contractor for the roading and drainage work to this site has commenced operations and to date has completed the road formation ready for metalling; has constructed seven chains of open drain and laid complete the nine-inch concrete pipe culverts. The work remaining to be done consists of the metalling of the roadways, the formation and surfacing of footpaths, the levelling of the sites for the buildings and the filling in of a swampy hollow with general cleaning up around the site. Tenders closing at this meeting ot the council for" buildings and sewer drainage will be considered and it is anticipated that the work will cost more than was estimated on by me. This increase can be expected, mainly due to increased costs for materials and labour together with the fact that my previous estimate (£2BOl was based on outline drawings only witnout details to work to. Modifications of the proposals could be made, but I am of the very definite opinion that the scheme put forward will result in benefit to the borough and will provide one of the most up-to-date camping sites in the country. As soon as tenders for the buildings are let I intend to advise the Automobile Association of the work being undertaken with the object of having the site well advertised for the coming summer season. Other points raised by me at your last council meeting should receive attention at an early date. Mr. J. M. Olsen’s tender of £509 for the erection of buildings and sewer drainage was accepted, konka board to be used on the walls of the buildings. Cr. Ryan strongly opposed the expenditure of such a large sum of money on the camp site and pointed out that the council had only allocated £475 for this purpose and now intended to spend over £7OO. "If money is required for anything else of an urgent nature we are told that funds won’t permit, and yet the council are prepared to spend £7OO on a camp site.” The Mayor: It’s very necessary to have an up-to-date site that will be of great benefit to the town and the business people. It is no use doing things by halves. Tenders were called for locally, as we wanted the job to be done by a local tradesman. Cr. Loader: I will move that Mr. Olsen’s tender be accepted. Cr. Ryan: I wish to protest. We originally intended to spend £475 on the camp site; now the sum has risen to over £7OO. Cr. Kearins; I am against the motion also. The Mayor: The town is going to ' benefit. It has suffered a good deal through the lick of a decent camp site. Last summer there were no less than 30 campers at the site one night and they would probably have stayed longer if the site had been more up-to-date. These campers always spend money when they are in the town. The motion was carried, Crs. Ryan and Kearins recording their votes against it. GENERAL NEWS. At the monthly meeting of the Taihape Borough Council on Friday a letter was received from Mr. G. J. Allen, stating that on July 1 his car had been damaged as a result of a collision with the power shovel that was being used on the reconstruction of the Main Highway and he was holding the council equally responsible with the contractor, and enclosed an account for £6 6s for repairs to his car, as a result of the mishap. The consulting engineer stated that he had been informed by two workmen that Mr. Alien himself was to blame for the accident. "As far as I can see he hasn’t a leg to stand on if it came to a Court case,” declared Mi-. Murray. Mr. Loader moved that the council accept no responsibility and that the matter be brought under the notice of the contractor. The motion was carried. Those in charge of the produce stall at the Anglican Church bazaar on Wednesday will be pleased to receive donations of produce of any kind. A confirmation service will be con- ‘ ducted in St. Margaret’s Church tomorrow evening by the new Bishop ’ of the Wellington Diocese. THE MAJESTIC "RIFFRAFF” Jean Harlow has never displayed her ' versatility as an actress to better ad- 1 vantage than in “Riffraff,” which opens to-morrow at the Majestic. She follows her smashing hit in “China Seas” with another sparkling role, again against the background of the - sea, but in a vital, romantic story, which gives her the finest opportunity ; of her career. Teamed with her for the first time is one of Hollywood’s

THE MAJESTIC “RIFFRAFF” Jean Harlow has never displayed her versatility as an actress to better advantage than in “Riffraff,” which opens to-morrow at the Majestic. She follows her smashing hit in “China Seas” with another sparkling role, again against the background of the sea, but in a vital, romantic story, which gives her the finest opportunity of her career. Teamed with her for the first time is one of Hollywood’s finest actors, Spencer Tracy, and the miss no opening to get the most out of the powerful and sweeping story, which mixes the most hilarious ?omedy with the most touching pathos. Convinced that the trend of public preference is for red-blooded stories with virile power and sweep, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer has scored in starring its two strongest personalities. The story of “Riffraff” invades a brandnew locale, the commercial fishing fleet that plies the waters of the Pacific off Southern California. Much of the story takes place in the fishing village adjacent to the great California metropolis a community affiliated with the city, yet entirely separated as though in a different world. There the fishermen and their families live their lives and work out their destinies without contact with