MANGAORE NOTES.

Shannon News, 20 February 1925, Page 3

MANGAORE NOTES.

(From our Own Correspondent.) Messrs I. R. Robinson (District Electrical Engineer), T. A. Johnston (resident engineer), A. R. Blackwood and E. J. Garticle left during the week end lor Christchurch to. attend the annual conference 0/ ‘the New Zealand Soci-. ety Qi Civil Engineers, In connection with the recent farewell “smoko” to Mr A. Gavey, Mi' I. R. Robinson’s name was inadvertently omitted from the list of apologies. An accident of a very l serious nature occurred at the Top Camp last Monday evening. It appears that one Of the workmen, while lying in bed, received the full force of a boulder which crashed through his hut and broke liis leg. On immediate medical examination the sufferer was removed to the hospital.

Mr Fred Brown, of the Power House staff, returned this week from a three weeks’ vacation up North, looking fit and well. While in Auckland he was a guest of the Royal N.Z. Yacht Squadron Club and was closely associated with the Sanders Cup races. Mr T. F. Spring, Qf Moutoa, has joined the P.W.D. staff, hero, and is attached to the stores branch. During tlie week-end, the Mangahao River camp sent a cricket team to try conclusions with the Shannon Cluib, but owing to the bad weather conditions the looked for match was declared off.

Country people who have visited the city lately say that country life is completely changing through the electric light installation in their homes (reports the Auckland Star). The oln kerosene lamps will very soon now, in many parts, be relegated to top shelves as a relic of the days when the trimming and filling of the lamps was a most important part of the morning work. More and more telephones are getting installed, and not only that some of the best “listeningin” plants are to be. found in the farming bush districts. Many houses also have porcelain baths connected up with the hot water circulation. Country life is coming into its own. The application of the Ihakara settlers for a rural delivery service has now been agreed to by the Postal Department and the service which will be per motor-cycle, will be instituted as soon as the necessary preliminaries have been arranged. The delivery will extend as far as Mr R. Law’s property on the Shannon Road, and will take in Potts’ and other side roads. A daily mall delivery will be made and stamps and money orders will be procurable from the postman.