80 YEARS AGO

Lake County Mail, Issue 28, 3 December 1947, Page 5

80 YEARS AGO

From the Files of the Wakatip Mail It is notified in the New Zealand Gazette that Robert Anderson has been appointed postmaster at Frankton. • » * Th Government would not agree to the re-establishment of a Government Post Office in Queenstown. It was considered there would be no advantage in placing the post office on its former footing because the business done during last quarter is no more than that transacted at three or four store post offices in the North Island. * * * The borough council resolved that all pig sty owners be served with a notice that they must remove pig sties to a site to be pointed out behind Shotover street, being a municipal reserve. The Government was also to be requested to remove the water closet from off the main road behind the camp. * * * His Honor, the Superintendent, has been pleased to appoint Owen Mackin and William Buller as managers of the Arrow Cemetery in place of Messrs Bowman and Richmond, resigned. * * * St. Patrick’s day passed off quietly. Coincident —a gala day was held by the licensed victuallers. The price of drink, however, was not increased to Is each as rumoured, as if verifying the adage, “ Extremes me,et.” One philanthropic bonifaee had the- temerity to retail liquors at 3d per glass, and a roaring trade he did. The reduction only lasted a day. * * * On Thursday last a long promised and long looked for event became a' reality, namely, the stretching of the telegraph wires to Queenstown. * * * The Provincial Treasurer, Dunedin, advised the town clerk that the sum of £240 19s, being subsidy of £2 for £1 collected in rates in Queenstown has been placed to the credit of the corporation. « * * The following is the official result for the poll of the Goldfield election. Three member*: .T. C. Brown, 404; J. Mout, 345; T. L. Shepherd, 343; W, Puller, 319; Nicholson, 280; Mclntyre,