LOCAL AND GENERAL

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 313, 29 August 1932, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Street Improvement Borough worlcmen are at present engaged upon the improvement of Victoria and Ruihi Street. Both streets are being slightly widened and graded. Culverts at the junction of the two streets will assist materially to, overcome. the storm-water problem in that locality. Busy Week-end Saturday was an exceptionally husy day in town. This was largely due to the payout to the Timberlands f orestry workers. Large numbers of the men were natives. Hard-up Social To-hlght In order to assist in the alleviation of distress in Rotorua, the Wonderland Orchestra has offered the free use of the Dixieland Hall and the orchestra, to the Rotorua Relief Workers' Association for a special hard-up social to be held this evening. During the evening a 500 card t ournament and old time dancing will be provided, prizes being provided for both and a special trophy for the best hard-up costume. An advertisement appears in another column of this issue. The proceeds of the dance are to go to the assistance of men from the Kaingaroa plantations stilb remaining in Rotorua. They are entirely without funds and their position is serious. Cheap Concrete Discussing the comparative cost3 of f ootpath surf acing with a representative of the "Morning Post" on Saturday, Mr. E. T. Johnson, chairman of the Works Committee of the Rotorua Borough Council, pointed out i that while concrete was costing 5s a yard as against 4s 6d for bitumen, it had to be remembered that concrete made a much more valuable and permanent pathway. The low price was made possible by the use of unemployed labour. Hares Take to Water. With the hounds in full cry, hares on two occasions swam across a stream during the Pakuranga Hunt Club's meet at East Tamaki" recently. Both times they succeeded in eseaping, for, although they were pursued, their immersion in water considerably deadened the scent, and the hounds were forced to give up the chase. It is most unusual for hares to take to the water, although there have been instances of them swimming out to sea to a.void pursuit. This is the first meet this season at which the quarry has resorted to swimming. New Goods Shed With the exception of building up the approach to the loading platform in the station yard, work on the new goods shed erected by the Railway Department, on the Fenton Street frontage, has now been completed and the shed is officially open for business. At the present time it does not live up to the unpleasant forecasts made with regard to its smell, and the appearance will certainly not be seriously offensive when the proposed trees are planted. On Saturday the shed was stored with wire, grass seed and other requisites for the native development areas. Signs of Spring First signs of spring are apparent in many Rotorua gardens. Christmas plum trees, pussy willows, and other early varieties are showing their first touches of returning green, while in the pastures there are evident signs of reviving growth. The earlier season in the Bay of Plenty district is apparent, for approaching the sea coast toward Whakatane and Opotiki, the signs of spring growth are noticeably further forward than in Rotorua. Gloves or a Car? "I think that in every case where a settlement is reached the assessors should he presented with a pair of 1 white gloves," remarked an assessor, amdist laughter at a recent Wellington Conciliation Council sitting. "Why not give the Commissioner a pair of motoring gloves," suggested an assessor from the other side. "Perhaps it would be better to give him the motor car first," added a third. The commissioner, however, did not signify preference for either the gloves or the car.