BOROUGH COUNCIL

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 9, Issue 552, 27 July 1920, Page 2

BOROUGH COUNCIL

FOREMAN'S REPORT. The Pukekobe Borough Council foreman (Mr. S. Clews) reported as follows at the monthly meeting held on' Wednesday nigbt:— The drain through Mr. Goodwins property has been'depened throughout. The pipes have been carefully laid and covered to a depth of 2ft. This work is now finished, with, the exception of extra work to be done on Station Road, which require^.additional pipes; also some drain along Dr. Wake's f dMpjs£^fj. A concrete pipe put in on Paerata Roiyjg'.ai-d thflMjET $m ough workmen are now engagßFin filling in and straightening the rogd. Five trucks of metal have come toVjQS hand. This has been carted to the worst places, and repairs have beendone as far as the metal would permit.

The hedge around the Don/ain lias been cut, cleaned up, and burned, and now bears a respectable appearance. u ; . Five chains of path have been trint-,S|jj med in Albert Street, and metal jjf screenings have been placed on the path. • Metal spawls are being got for the Buckland Road. We expect about 200 yards from Mr. Deed. Spawls are also being got for Paerata Road. These spawls in both cases are quite close to the roads, and will save long carting, and should be a substantial help towards the completion of these roads. Your thirfj the works committee inspect and be empowered to purchase a suitable •tone-crushing plant.

WOMEN WHO PILFER. Although the average nicely-brought-up woman is as honest as the day over the big things of lite, and would stand aghast at the idea of being thought a thief, it is amazing to find how many otherwise hVnest people will be dishonest in ;i petty, way (writes Joan Kennedy in an English exchange). Lives there a woman who will not "sneak" a few hairpins when she can? Whether they be found in the club, dressing-room or on the dress-ing-table of a friend, hairpins seem to fascinate a woman's fingers. I know more than one woman who never buys these necessities of a woman's toilette.

And then that penny omnibus fare. The diplomacy and statistical calculation which some women apply to the ' cheating of omnibus and tramway . companies is worthy of a better ob-">> ject. A woman will be pleased all ,' day if she can do a twopenny journey on a pennv ticket. Sylvia came "to tea the other day in a new hat. "I made it myself, dear," she :said.;'"ft's my old shape, re-covered." iit^ The covering wss a medley of velvet leaves in the most wonderful colourings. Vaguely I voiced my wonder as to how Sylvia had secured so marvellous a rainbow range of foliage. There miffs t have beenM-juite ~ 150 leas«*on that hat. But'sylvia ine hadtsent ratntfMfo%m a dozen well-knOwn* shops fSr patterns of velvet, asking for a wide selection of their best stock.

Never for a moment had she paus-

' fd to consider the unfairness of it. I think it was Sylvia who once made a lovely patchwork bedspread from silk patterns. ' ,I» a certain tea-shop where small spoons grace the tea-cups I watched a well-dressed girl deliberately knoCK a spoon into, her lap. When she stood up to g& that spoon did not fall. She had slipped it into her handbag. No doubt that was not the first time or the first spoon. Plenty of women think nothing of such .and some- openly boast of tfife odd places from w«ich their odd cutlery has come. It is all exphined by saying that you are a "souvenir" maniac. And in a cake-shop the ether day I overhead one girl say to another: "She hasn't charged for the cream buns. Oh well, that's her mistake, ~ r.ot mine."

You leave one of vour best "lacy" handkerchiefs behind you when you have been to tea with a friend, flow often is it returned to you? Drop a valuable piece of jewellery, and it will not be purloined, but r, handkerchief is so trivial. The finder pockets it with "joy, and you replace it at a cost of 3s lid.