LATE LOCALS.

Hokitika Guardian, 11 February 1921, Page 3

LATE LOCALS.

The overdraft of the Buller County Council now stands at £BO7I. the Bank limit being £8292. and the legrd limit £11.056. This month's pay (January) amounts to £970, and there are £833 „f flip previous month's nnpresented cheques.

The Bullcr County Superannuation Fund on 31st. December last amounted to £IBB6 Is. 9d. Since the Ist. October, 1913, when the fund was established, the Council has contributed £970 Is Bd. in subsidy and Public Trust Office £307 16s. lid in interest and bonus. Four pensioners now receive £SO 18s from the fund and £ll3 10s. per annum from the Council. Writing on motor traffic on County roads, the Btiller County Engineer says

.Motor propelled vehicles have become very numerous and popular in Bullei district, and are at present causing extra maintenance on our roads. Under our present system of patching, the mending -of roads is never completed; loose metal seems to he ever present in one place or another to the discomfort of travellers and to the injury of vehicles. The roadman usually makes his pitches two inches or so higher than the surrounding surface. 'The wheels of :i vehicle fall ill from the mounds so created, soon make holes on each side of them causing the road to he worse for patching. When the road crust becomes very dry, the pneumatics withdraw the fine portions of the road crust from between the coarser stones, causing a great -deal of dust to rise and the road breaks up. In wet weather pneumatics throw the metal used for patch ing completely off the road. ' The manufacture of NO RUBBING Laundry Help desire to pay a well deserved eomplimnt to Hokitika housewives for their loyalty to NO RUBBING Laundry Help, which lias enabled tho company to spend considerable time and money in helping to lift New Zealand’s education system into a higher standard of idealism by means of Golden Rule School Rulers, the Thinkers’ Pictorial Exercise and Note Books, etc. Don’t sav just Garden hose. Say NORTH BRITISH GARDEN HOSE. Then the dealer will know you know the world’s best. Doesn’t kink, and lasts longest Summer-time is salad-time. Don’t spoil your salads with poor vinegar. Get the best —SHARLAND’S VINEGAR. At all grocers in bulk and bottle. Children like WADE’S WORM PIGS. The finest remedy for that prevalent com plaint—worms.