LATE LOCALS.

Hokitika Guardian, 10 July 1925, Page 3

LATE LOCALS.

Cars will leave Newman’s at eight o’clock to-night for the Kumara Ball.

A dance will be held in the Public Hall, Kanieri in aid of the Kanieri Football Club on Wednesday, J illy 22m1.

“On a road in Taranaki the Post and Telegraph Department are pulling up their concrete poles and putting in ironbark on one, side of the road, and the Power Board, is putting in concrete pules on the other," said .Mr Lancaster, engineer to the Waitomo Power Board at a hoard meeting (states an exchange). lie explained that the poles had been made so light that liieii maximum load had been too quickiv reached as the Department added wire after wire to the telephone lines to meet the demand of new subscribers.

The manager of a group of tree-plan-ting companies operating in llie Pularuin district gave some astonishing figures relative to tree-planting (relates the Auckland "Herald”). Despite the stormy weather of late no less than 120 men are employed. A total of 1600 acres lias already been planted. Two hundred thousand trees are heeled in on the block for the daily requirements, and a. further live to six million trees arc ready for transplanting from the nurseries. The number ol trees planted averages 160,00!) a day, representing 1600 trees tor each man engaged in llii* actual planting operations. It is expected that 16.000 acres will he planted before the season ends in September or (letober. She was not a big woman, but she stood up in tin.* Auckland Magistrate’s Court learlessly. when Mr F. K. Hunt. S.M., re I used to make an order for maintenance and asked: ** Why should inn my husband keep me? 1 have been through the war, and can light lor my rights.” ’Jo this Ills Worship replied, with the query, “ Why should you not go home and look after your-husband’s house? You have not proved your assertions ni drunkenness or cruelty.” 'I hr* ease was adjourned upon the husband promising to pay lus a week for the maintenance ol the child, the wilo -relates the “Star”), stated that ln-r husband and herself had lunch together helore coming to Court, "lie paid, of course, ’’ said Mr Hunt, and she renlied, "Ail J know is 1 did not pay.”