DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 August 1930, Page 5

DOMINION ITEMS.

NEW OIL DEPOT. (By Telegraph—Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, August 12. A large oil distributing depot, which has been in course of erection for trie Vacuum Oil Company Ply., Ltd., during the past few months at Waiwetu, now is completed and constitutes one of the most important of such institution, in the Dominion. The new depot has been built on an area of seven and a half acres and includes two motor spirit tanks each with a capacity of 750,000 gallons, a kerosene tank with a capacity of 150,000 gallons, and three intermediate' tanks on .steel towers with a capacity of 15,000 gallons. Each equipment is of the most modern type throughout, the two large tanks being the first in New Zealand to be equipped with Wiggins’s “floater breather” roofs. FARMER FINED. PAHIATITA, Aug. 14. At the Magistrate’s Court a dairy farmer, Walter Douglas Burgess, was fined £2O and costs and his license cancelled for six months for being intoxicated in charge of a car. On the second charge, that of being forbidden to drive bv the police on account of. his condition, lie did drive the Said Vehicle he was fined £2 and costs. For using obscene language at the time of. arrest- lie was fined £2 and costs.