LATE LOCALS

Hokitika Guardian, 14 July 1933, Page 6

LATE LOCALS

5 ! “Some of the decadent mining: towns . of the South Island, for reasons of local 3 pride, still retain their Mayor, council" 3 lors and all the trappings of borough 5 status,” said Dr E. P. Neale- in an adl dress upon local government before th e . Economic Society at Auckland. The i speaker instanced Ross and Kumara, with ‘l5O people each, Roxburgh with 420 and Arrowtown with only 280. The I reductio ad absurdum, he .said, was Naseby, which had but 200 inhabitents, equivalent to an adult. male of about 60J;As Naseby?\\his the seafct of Maniototd-Cbunty and'-con'taifrfd .the Maniototo Hospital, not.'many; males in the borough could be unconnected with local government; Evidently there wasnofc a very wide field left from which to choose a Mayor and six borough councillors. Such tiny boroughs should be merged into the surrounding counties or made into dependent town districts. A London correspondent states that of the 50 passengers who made the round voyage in the Shaw, Savill liner Akaroa, several have made up. their minds to repeat the experience next winter. Mr W. J. Douglas, passenger manager of the company, who went to New Zealand in the Akaroa, says that the tourists were all delighted with the scenery of both islands, which far surpassed even their most sanguine expectations. Jn the South Island, which English tourists are sometimes obliged to miss, is probably the least spoiled | scenery in the civilised world. The jour" | ney from Hokitika, the centre of the West Coast gold rushes of the ’sixties, to Franz Jo‘ef Glacier is unsurpassed. The ice of the glacier comes right down to sea level and its setting in the green native forest is superb. Mount Cook and the motor drive through the Duller Gorge are other attractions which no visitor should miss. Roundvoyage tickets allow the traveller to miss more than three months of the English winter at a cost of little more than a pound a day, and the traveller’s English pound is worth about 25 shillings when he goes on shore, instead of about 14 shillings on the Continent. , Keep baby free from colds this winter—sprinkle a few drops of “Nazol”. ] the scientific remedy on the pillow every night. Disinfects and protects j the points of infection —tlie nose and j throat. 60 doses foi le fid. 120 doses s for 2a ficl—AdvC -j