LOCAL AND GENERAL

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 61, 3 November 1931, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Visit of A.A.A. Patrol An Auckland Automobile Association patrol arrived in Rotorua yesterday afternoon for the purpose of erecting official association hotel signs. The patrol will leave this morning for Taupo and National Parlc in order to secure data for a report on the road in view of the commencement of the tourist season. Reform Not Represented. A meeting of the supporters of the Coalition Party called for last evening was adjourned when it was fonnd that no representation was forijhcoming frona. members of the Reform division. The meeting was convened as an invitation to the Reform supporters, but as members of the United organisation were the only section represented, the meeting was adjourned to a future date. Preparing For Election. The district electoral department is husy making preparations for the forthcoming general elections, and an officer has heen drafted from the staff of the Post and Telegraph Department to assist in the work of preparing for the issue of the supplementary roll. Lay-Out of Town Belt. Mr F. Tschopp the landscape architect, who is preparing heautification plans for the Borough Council, is at present engaged upon a plan for the planting and lay-out of the Town Belt. Adjacent to the High School between Pererika Street and Old Taupo Road, Mr. Tschopp has designed a recreation area which will take in a football, cricket or hockey ground, a croquet lawn, and three tennis courts, or all/ernatively a howling green. Under Mr. Tschopp's scheme for tree-planting this area will be flanked by rows of ribbon-woods and smaller shrubs' which he suggests should be used for the heautification of Pererika Street and Old Taupo Road. This area will take in only a section of the Town Belt and Mr. Tschopp has now almost completed a plan laying out the reserve along the continuation of Pererika Street. This will take in a full-sized quarter-mile eycle racing track, extensive shrubbery plantations and an ornamental lilypond. Keeping Themselves Occupied. The unemployed men who have been engaged in preparing the community gardens in Amohau Street and the Cemetery Reserve have carried out a considerable amount of planting in both areas, and the gardens are now well under cultivation. Recently a number of single men who were unable to ohtain any relief work spent some time assisting in the preparation of the plots, in order to keep themselves occupied. Ranolf Street, South. Next week, three gangs of unemployed relief workers will be engaged in footpath formation in Ranolf Street South, opposite the motor camping site. This street which previously was unformed and had a very steep grade, has been Ievelled down very considerably and a twenty-five foot carriageway has already been formed. The footpath work still remains to he done and when completed will extend the total width to 66 feet. j Wrestling at Hamilton. | Although Rotorua has not yet attained to the dignity of the possession of a wrestling association, local enthusiasts will have an opportunity of witnessing a first-class match at Hamilton during the week, when Billy Meeske and Tom Lurich will meet in the Theatre Royal on Thursday night. This is Meeske's first season in New Zealand and he has already proved one of the most successful and popular visiting rnat men. Lurich has been here on previous occasions and is recognised as a particularly formidable opponent for any of the wrestlers at present in the country. Agriculture Lecture. A lecture on the making of ensilage will he given hy Mr. C. S. Dalgleish, fields inspector for the Department of Agriculture, in the Citizen's Club on November 9. The lecture will be illustrated by lantern slides and should he of particular interest to farmers in the district. All members of the Rotorua Branch of the Farmers Union are invited to attend. Fishing Licenses. Later reports regarding the sale of trout fishing licenses in the Rotorua and Taupo districts appear to indicate that saies for the season which opened on Sunday, have exceeded expectations and have in many cases been better than last year's figures. A large number of anglers apparently left the purchase of a license until the last minute and several Rotorua agents after a very slack beginning, did a very brisk trade during the afternoon and evening of Saturday. Rotorua Development Works. Included in the Public Works estimates for the current year presented to the House of Representatives last night, are the following amounts under the heading of "Development of Tourist Resorts": Re-construction of Ward and Blue bath-houses £39,300; erection of reservoir and installation ' of booster pump for water supply system £6,000; improvements to reserves £1,500; electrical Nvorks and telephone line £4,000; new effluent pipe for drainage works £1250.