ABOUT A FENCE.

Shannon News, 19 May 1922, Page 3

ABOUT A FENCE.

“MESSED UP ALL ROUND

“A DISGRACE TO THE TOWN.’’

Wlieican account was placed before the Borough Council on Tuesday evening lor a quantity of timber received ior the construction of the fence "quud the area which is to be beautified in Plimmer Terrace, as well as for some oilier purposes, a somewhat lively discussion ensued.

Cr. Spencer said hei had. examined some oi the timber and was of opinion that it ought io be condemned. It was not Hie quality ordered, and the Council should not pay for it. It should he replaced.

A question was asked’ as to the! fence in Plimmer Terrace, wdiere the beautifying was to be done. Cr. Spencer: The job has simply been messed up all round." The whole tiling is a disgracelul tangle up between the Beautifying Society and the Council. The Mayor said the fencing would be debited to the Beautifying Society and the Council.

Cr. Hook: But the Council ordered the timber for the fence.

Cr. Spencer said Cr. Hyde had charge of the: job. The work being done in erecting the fi\ce was a disgrace to the. town and should be pulled up and. the work given to a praetiea.l man.

Cr. Murray: The whole town is laughing at it. The Mayor said nobody could blame the CounciLfor the class of work that was being done. Cr. Gardner remarked that “there was a lot of messing about” in connection with the job. Cr. Murray said it was so shocking that, everybody was poking their fingers at. it, Cr. Richardson: Too many old-age pensioners on it. He: considered the trouble was that, it, was run by cne man. The work should have been left in charge of the Reserves Committee, not one man.

The Mayor: That, is not fair in his absence.

Cr. Richardson: I would say the same -to- liis face, as I have done before.

Cr. Murray considered Cr. Spencer, as a practical man, should have had some oversight of the work.

—Cr. Spencer said if Cr. Hyde had approached him, he would have done so and taken a pride in the work and got a good job done. Cr. Gardner: If you want a thing done properly, give it to a practical man.

Another councillor remarked that the fence was commenced at both ends at once, and the ends pointed in different directions. The post-holes were large enough to take a post a foot, square, instead of posts less than six inches. On Cr. Spencer’s motion, seconded by Cr. Butt, it was decided to inform the timber company that, the Council could not see its way to pay for the timber received unless it replaced that portion which was condemned.

Mr Clutha Mackenzie had not Jjeeu in Temuka many minutes When he requested that he might be taken to “see” the Temuka pipe and tile works, states the Timaru Post. It was remarked, at. his meeting, as being singular to hear him ask to “see” the works, to which Mr Mackenzie replied that seeing was not a matter of the eyes only, but more particularly an act of the mind.

The discovery of shale at Orenuki is said to have been made quite by accident, and dates back to the .rlv days of the diggings (says the Advocate). One old-timer, coming across a. black seam in his claim, decided that, it looked like good building material, and in time carried home sufficient to build a. chimney to his hot. The erection was a pronounced success, and the camp was on the eve or following his exemple and building chimneys of the same stuff. On their return from work one night, however, our hero’s hut was found reduced to ashes, while the chimney sbd listed merrily. In this way was the in Pamiri able nature of the strange materia! discibsed.