LOCAL AND GENERAL

Waipukurau Press, Volume XXVIII, Issue 120, 16 May 1932, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Borough Council Meets To-Night. The usual monthly meeting of the Waipukurau Borough Council is to bo held to-night at 7.30 o’clock. Stratford Main Trunk Line The Mayor of Stratford, Mr F. Thomson, has received advice from Hon. J. G. Coates, that the work of completing the gap in the Stratford Main ■ Trunk railway is preceding steadily as far as funds will allow, the Minister of Public Works, Rt. and will be completed in twelve months’ time if no further unforscen economic difficulties arise. Age of Machinery This is the age of machinery remarks the Bluff correspondent of the Southland News. The innovation of “grabs” for discharging coal attracted many to the waterfront to view the labour saving device in action. The “grabs” work automatically, being lowered into the hold of the vessel, where by mechanical action they lift up to 8 cwt. of coal at one operation, are then swung out board to railway wagons where the contents are discharged by similar method. Incidentally, the adoption of this system dispenses with the services of nine men in each hold, previously employed with shovel and baskets. A Ruse that Failed A strange signature on a withdrawal slip accounted for by the showing of a hand swathed in bandages did not induce a teller at the Post Office Savings Bank (Christchurch) into paying out a sum of £ll2 to a man who said his name was George Young. The teller’s suspicions were communicated to the nolice and “Young” was met outside

the post office by Detective Jarrold, who escorted him to the police station removed the bandages and found no injury. In consequence “Young,” otherwise Edward John Watson, a salesman, aged 29, appeared in the Magistrate’s Court, where he pleaded guilty to forging and attempting to utter a Post Office Savings Bank withdrawal slip for £ll2, and stealing £1 in money from George Young.

Friday sees the opening of. .the most extensive and exclusive collection of .model gowns and millinery yet shown in Hawke’s Bay. A shipment of goods is being opened from the leading gown and millinery houses of London and the Continent which we confidently assert cannot be bettered for style or price in Now Zealand. Be sure and see our first showing on Friday, iMarch 4th—MATHEWSONS LTD., 34 Memorial Square, Napier, Phone 747.