BUSINESS NOTES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2000, 2 October 1907, Page 3

BUSINESS NOTES.

A boy for a chemist’s shop is w mted. 'The Borough Council calls for tenders for forming and shingling Abattoir road. Mr. C. B. De Lautour announces tbit a hillside disc plough u „.| a premier Cultivator (which ploughs and harrows ill one operation) may he seen working at Air G Jones’s Waimano farm.to-day, and for a few days following. A five-roomcd house in Childers road is. advertised to let. An advertiser wants a tenant for a workshop and bedroom. An advertiser has board and reside uc© close to town to let.

“FASHIONABLE WEDDING.”

LA BELLE ROTORUA TO JOHN GOVERNAIENT. AIR. T.E. DONNE AS THE CELEBRANT. "We have not assembled 'to rend tho obsequies of Rotorua,” sakl Mr. T. E. Donne on September 16, when transferring Rotorua from tho control of tho Town Council to tho Government. “It will resombio moro a marriage ceremony, La Belle Rotorua being married to John Government, and I hope the alliance will be a happy and prosperous one, and that there wall be no eauso for a dissolution.” By Act of Parliament Air. Donne is now a corporation, and will bo one so long as ho is general manager ot the Tourist Department. Ho will lie represented at Rotorua by the resident engineer (Air. L. Dirks), who attends to mundane municipal matters, and by Dr. Wohlmann, who lias charge of the medical department. ln addition to superseding tht' Town Council, the Government will take tho place of the Atnovi Councils of AVhakarewarewa and Olimo-

m util. During Ilia speech that inaugurated the new regime, the manager said that the old system of dual control was no longer feasible. Ho mentioned that in about six months’ time the power-house at Okero for generating electric power for lighting and other purposes would be completed, at a total cost of £IO,OOO. “The new bath buildings (which are accounting for £30,000),” continued Air. Donne, “are amongst the handsomest buildings, from an architectural point of view, in New Zealand, and would do credit to any bathing spa in the world. When completed they will be tho most up to date, and it is hoped that the-Go-vernment will be able to open a portion of them during the coming season. The waters of Rotorua and their application for medical purposes are one of the greatest assets in the country, a mine of wealth, better than any AVaihi or any other gold mine, better than rich fields of

waving corn, better than pastoral lands with their attendant butter and cheese factories, because tho waters cost nothing to produce, they are inexhaustible, and the demand for them is ever increasing.” He referred to the installation of

the new drainage system, and tho work done in improving the gardens. Amongst ho new works would be ail isolation hospital, tho extension of accommodation for invalids at the Sanatorium, additions to the boatingshed, a more liberal supply of books for the library, and the planting of additional shade trees in the streets, including selections of native trees.

Figures had been taken out for the consideration of the Government in connection with the system of electrical tramways for the town as soon as additional current is available. Tho extension of the electric lighting system would bo gone on with, the fire brigade would be placed on a good footing, and the Government would be asked to provide sleeping quarters for the firemen in the vicinity of the fire station. Encouragement would be given to the recently formed salvage corps, which is certainly ail essential adjunct to a well-equipped firo brigade. The Government would be asked to approve of the formation of an esplanade along the lake frontago, in the vicinity of the wharves. Answering questions about night amusenints generally, Air. Donne said that so tar as shooting tho chute, belter skelter, etc., were concerned,

lie understood a syndicate was coming to Rotorua with these as an investment. It was for private enterprise to step in with these amusenmts. The Government would afford every facility, and give them land at a nominal cost. The matter would not be lost from view, but he could make no promises.

Afterwards Air. Donno was a target for the deputationist. Every organisation in the township, from, a Chamber of Commerce to a Croquet Club, approached him for Government assistance of some kind.