PROVINCIAL PARAGRAPHS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 120, 7 June 1937, Page 3

PROVINCIAL PARAGRAPHS

Our Own Correspondents.)

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Erection of Signs. On a motion by Cr. L. M. Monckton, seconded by Cr. J. A. Swinburn, the Waipukurau County Council, at its meeting on Saturday, passed a vote of thanks to the Automobile Association (H.B.) for the erection of signs on the county 'roads. Appreciation. Tho Waipukurau County Council on Saturday passed a resoliition expressing appreciation of the action of the Central Hawke 's Bay Electric PoWer Board in reducing power charges. "Good Business." "The general poliey to-day seems to be, sociai service in preference to good business," said Mr. A. C. Russell,chairman of the Waipukurau County Council, at Saturday's meeting. "If. we maintain a poliey of small ideas wo will corrie through all right, bnt if we gefc big ideas we will find ourselves. in a fix, as cther local bodies have done." Waipukurau County. "The rates of practically all the counties in the Duminion have gone up. but we have not found it xiecessary to take that step," said Mr. A. C. Russell (chairman) at tlie annual meeting} of the Waipukurau County Council on Saturday. "Any commissioner who may be appointed to consider amalgamation must be inxpressed with the good wck which this county lxas done. At the Counties' Conforenre in Wellington it is dismal to listen to the j tales of woe, whereas we have no trouble* at *U." j