WHANGAREI NEWS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 249, 18 October 1907, Page 7

WHANGAREI NEWS.

(By Telegrat/a.—Own Correspondent.)

_" . WEAggABEI, Tnnrsday. I EieJPaifflgarei-jao'snn? Club opened their JSOTseasbtL'to-day."' The"-weather was t>ei>--lect, and a laree- crbWd gathered' to wlt*-.--".'nesß-t&e trial'fours arranged to compets - far trogMes. -" Some splendid racing" reEalted, mc final being won by Growing's I crew after a keen contest with tiie runners- ' Bfi-. " ". |

-. The mertPig el the Chamber of Commerce was held, on • Wednesday evening. Monday ' Holidays The chairman referral to the idea of making all statutory iioUdays (except Christmas Day and Good. Fnflaji fall on the nearest Mondays. He would like the holidays to be subject to taal jurisdiction, so that such towns .as ."Whangarei could arrange the dates to suit the-'ffifri rict-_ _Mr Bnrminond .thought that Vaere.. a; aWiiday I fell on any cay except the week it: would be better Ito postpone such, holiday to the following mttwtSSXiS. he. moved in that direction in -reference to the next King's Birthday. Mr -Palmer seconded .the motion, which, was earned nnaninionsly. Grahamtown BaUway Extension.—At the last meeting- of the Chamber it was reresalred to ask the- Government to allow - railway-route'to. Grahamtown to cross mc river at or near the wharf instead of st the railway wharf, as at present. In accordance with his previous notice of moBon,, the. Mayor moved to rescind that re-. ' Eoianion. with the object of submitting the alternative ot making a grant to blast oat as sandstone reef below the railway ..jaurf, so that the s.s. Ngapuhi could get to- the railway wharf ar any state of the ude. Mr Foote said that to complete the indent Grahamtown extension with a . wharf and other necessities, would cost about £HLOOO, whereas the sandstone bar eoald be moved for £10.000 or less. It ys then agreed, on the motion, of Mr Carrara, that the Government should be asied to place upon the Estimates a snm to 'remove the sandstone reef below the railway wharf, gnri thus enable •Vessels to reach, the railway wnarf at low or if this could not be done, that ifce railway should cress the Whangarei 3£ver-at cr near the town 'wharf, and pass town the eastern side of the river to Graaaamtown. and that in the .meantime the Passage through the railway bridge should be widened so that the river traffic would ?ot.lae impeded.