LOCAL & GENERAL

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 3276, 16 June 1943, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL

Borough Accounts Accounts totalling £376 4s 9d were passed for payment at Thursday night’s meeting of the Paeroa Borough Council, Building On The Plains Building permits to a total value of £572 10s were issued during May, reported the engineer, Mr J. C. Clarke, to Wednesday’s meeting of the Hauraki Plains County Council.

Domain Trees Trimmed “The trees in Mackay street have been trimmed and the lower branches from the trees in the Paeroa Domain have also been removed,” reported the Works Committee to Thursday night’s meeting of the Paeroa Borough Council. Piping Unobtainable

“All water supplies ai’e now functioning normally, but piping for repairs is unobtainable so a good deal of temporary patching is done,” reported the engineer, Mr L. E. Shaw to the June meeting of the Ohinemuri County Council.

Metal From Borough Quarry “We now have on .hand at the quarry a good stock of crushed metal for concrete and have also stacked at the yard 20 yards of sand which will be used for concrete work,” reported the Works Committee to Thursday night’s meeting of the Paeroa Borough Council.

Cut Up For Firewood That the tree which had been removed from the Royal. Mail Hotel corner had been cut up for firewood and the wood stacked in the borough yard to be used in heating the bitumen tank was reported by the Works Committee to Thursday night’s meeting of the Paeroa Borough Council. No Tyres Available

“All plant is in satisfactory working order with the exception of the auto patrol grader which through an accident to one of the twin tyres is operating on. one tyre, all efforts to get a replacement have been without avail,” reported the engineer, Mr L. E. Shaw to the June meeting of the Ohinemuri County Council. One Water Scheme

When discussing water schemes for Kerepeehi and Waitakaruru at Wednesday’s meeting of the Hauraki Plains County Council, Cr. D. G. McMillan said it was becoming more apparent every day that the time was not far distant when there would be one water scheme for th 3 whole of the Plains. “Churchill And I”

Responding to the toast to the veterans of the South African War at Saturday evening’s Paeroa-Hauraki Returned Services Association reunion, Mr T. Fulton observed that their numbers were gradually becoming fewer. “In fact,” said Mr Fulton, “aside from my cobber over by the fire and Winston Churchill, that is ail I can recall at the moment.” The Silent Toast

It was appropriate that it was just at 9 p.m., the minute sacred throughout the Empire to the memory of the men who have given their lives on active seiwice, that the Silent Toast to Absent Comrades was honoured at the Paeroa-Hauraki Returned Services Association reunion at Paeroa last Saturday evening. The Last Post and then Reveille were sounded while returned servicemen stood in silence to the memory of those old soldiers who had “Gone West.”