Local & General

Chronicle (Levin), 23 April 1948, Page 3

Local & General

Golf Club's Opening The Mangaore Golf Club will be opening its season tomorrow affernoon. As the links are'now in good order following the. recent, rain, players should be faced with ideal golfing conditions.. The heavy -rain has also made a great improvement to the Buckley links, and it is .expected that the opening' day will be held in the very near future. Roadsides Graded The Main Highways Board's heavy grader spent .yesterday morning in Shannon grading off the grass which has overgrowsi- the surface of the roadsides ; ori 'the Ballance Street -and Plimiher Terrace sections of the main highway. This work, ' which is in keeping with the Borough1 Council's plan to clean up the roadsides, haS-made a great improvement to the streets concerned. ' Churcli To Be Shifted As the result of a discusslon at a recent meeting of the Vestry of the V-en. Bede's Anglican Church, a letter was received by the Shannon Borough Council at its fortnightly meeting on Tuesday evening, making application for a permit to move the ■ church. from the existing site in Bryce Street' to the church " section, next to-the Parish Hall, in Stout Street. The council held ' • the matter over '- until advice is received from the Building Controller. Mayor To Lay Citizens' Wreath The . Shannon Borough Council has received an invitation from the Shannon branch of the R.S.A. to attend the Anzac serviees on Sunday. The invitation was accepted and the Mayor, Mr. D. A. Fitzgerald, will represent the citizens at the memorial service. Cr. H. L. Norris was appointed to co-operate with the Mayor in laying the citizens' wreath on the Cenotaplp Not Considered Highways In reply to a letter from theShannon Borough Council received at its meeting this week, the district engineer of the Public Works Department stated that it was considered that the Shannon Borough was at present well served by existing State and main highways, and he could see no probabllity of Vance and Stafford Streets being declared as main highways. Warning Signals For Crossings It was resolved at the forcnightly meeting of the Shannon Borough Council on Tuesday evening thatithe town clerk. Mr. J. T. Bovis,..; ag^in bring before the ncetice hf the Railways Department the' r^qffest for the erection of warning signals at the Vance and Sheehan Street railway "^ossirigs. It was the . opinion of the council that as fhese were particularly fead crossings, soihb ineahs of /wafhing the publi'c df: approachih&.-/-ikil traffic should be erected: ...