Notes of the Day

Manawatu Times, Volume 69, Issue 56, 9 March 1944, Page 6

Notes of the Day

It was announced at yesterday’s meeting of the Oroua County Council that authority had been received for the re-sealing of two miles of the Haleombe run road and also the section of highway between Ivimbolton lvoad and Menzies’ bridge on the Colyton Road. Mr. Harding (engineer) said that he expected tenders for the work to be received in the course of a day or so. In connection with electricity charges for the month of February, Feilding’s representative on the Power Board (Mr. P. G. Guy) is anxious to obtain information from those consumers who are dissatisfied and requests that they communicate with him. This principally relates to the new position whereby hot water services are now metered under a new scale of charges and last month was the first month of the operation of the metering. The active part played by women in preparing parcels and knitting for patriotic purposes was mentioned by Cr. W. McLennan at yesterday’s meeting of the Oroua County Council. He said that there were many small committees of women throughout the county continually engaged in various patriotic activities and their contribution in the matter of packing parcels and in knitting comforts was beyond praise. He was aware that, the Feilding Zone Patriotic Committee was very pleased with this practical assistance. The remission of the 10 per cent, penalty on rates unpaid by due date can only be approved on the ground of hardship suffered by the ratepayers concerned. During the discussion at yesterday’s meeting of the Oroua County Council anent a proposal for remitting the penalty in a case, one councillor remarked that it seemed that the party concerned was “a bit of a muddler,” and he added, ”1 don’t think he has many brains.” This caused the chairman’ (Cr. A. B. Shannon) to remark: ‘ ‘ That’s a hardship. ’ ’ Loss of valuable laud by river erosion was mentioned at yesterday’s meeting of the Oroua County Council when a ratepayer applied for a revaluation and consequential adjustment of the rates on a property at Ashhurst. It w'as stated that the area of the section was .originally just over 70 acres and a recent survey found the remaining area to be just over 30 acres, the balance having been swept away by tho Manawatu River. The chairman (Cr. A. B. Shannon) remarked that this was one of the questions which would interest the Soil Conservation and Rivers Control Council. “In wartime one cannot expect any mails to be regular,” remarked Cr. T. Green at yesterday’s meeting of the Oroua County Council when Cr. R. Stewart, in discussing patriotic activities, said that some of the parcels of cake sent overseas were not arriving regularly. Cr. Stewart said that from reports tho delivery of some parcels, especially those containing cake, had been held up for a considerable time, as a result of which the contents had been damaged. Councillors did not think very much could be done about the mail deliveries which were so dependent upon circumstances over which there was at times little control. “I do not think that is sound fiuancing,” remarked Cr. A. B. Shannon (chairman) at yesterday’s meeting of the Oroua County Council when referring to a proposal that a patriotic art union and race meeting be held to help raise funds for patriotic purposes. Cr. Shannon was reporting on the recent Zone Patriotic Committee meeting in Feilding and recalled that such proposals had been put before the authorities in Wellington. He went on to say that he was satisfied that direct giving was the best method of collecting funds for patriotic purposes and said that to-day it was not only a duty but a privilege to support calls for patriotic moneys. He was confident that tho settlers of the county would respond to this year’s appeal.