LOCAL AND GENERAL

Chronicle (Levin), 17 January 1947, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

» More Plant for Karapiro j Turbine and alternator parts foi ' the second and third units/ at ! Karapiro hydro-electric station are i included in the cargo of the Port j Line motor-ship Port Chalmers, ; which arrived at Auckland from iLiyerpool on Tuesday. The heavy ! equipment includes three . lif ts of : from nine to ten tons each, one of , about 11 and one of 18. Road ! transport will be used to take some i of the larger items to Karapiro, the jothers going by rail. [ Wanted Better Braces | ' A well-known farmer in the ! Temuka district created a diversion in the serious ' business of the ; Temuka branch of Federated Farmjers when he moved that the branch : send a remit to the provincial exef cutive "that braces of better qualjitybe provided for working men," jreports the Timaru. Herald. "MeiTs; | braces have hardly any elastic in ' them these days," he complained. | "They tear the buttons off trousers, : and wear shirts out — and s'hirts are jhard to get." ] Hotel Not Sold | A report that the Rutland Hotel, seriously damaged by fire on the j night of December 30, had been ; sold as it stands to a New Zealand ibrewery firm, has been denied by the "licensee, states the Wanganui Chronicle. He was emphatic that the hotel had not been sold, and in ;repiy to a question said that no i negotiations had been entered into jfor the sale of the property. In jcompliance with the provision of a j temporary license, granted by the j Wanganui Licensing Committee, a i temporary bar has been established jih the name of the preSent • licensee. ; Attempt on Mt. Fr-anklin An attempu on Mount Franklin (7636ft) in the Sabine Valley at the ;head of Lake Rotoiti, Nelson , Province, is planned by members of jthe Tararua Tramping Club for j their expedition to the South ilsland in February. The trip will ibe chiefly for members who were junable to get away at Christmas ■ time. The route to be followed will be up the -Travers Valley to the head of Lake Rotoiti, where the climb on Mount Franklin is to be made. From there the party will proceed -to a base camp in the i Waiau Valley, from which visits will be madeHo Lady Tennyson and to Una, Enid, and Humboldt peaks in the Spencer Mountains. Crossing i the Moki vCol to the Christopher River, the party will continue to (Ada Pass, at the head of the Ada i River, then on to Lewis Pass via Cannibal Gorge, Maruia Valley. i River Goes TJnderground The . Takaka River has gone underground for the remainder of the summer, states the Nelson Evening Mail. A short distance below Uruwhenua, , the bed of the rivei: is extremely 'porous, and it is said that where the water runs against the cliff below the East Road there is a large hole through which the water poiirs into a subterranean channel. When there is a great volume of water in the river during the winter season the river flows both above and below the bed, but with less water in the drier months the water seeps away, and for several miles the river bed is dry. There it reappears through the shingle and flows as strongly as before.- The river is running steadily at Urewhenua just now, b.ut the disappearing act.Was performed a few days ago. Where the river' passes behind Takaka it is still running at normal summer flow.