WHANGAREI INTERESTS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 531, 7 December 1928, Page 12

WHANGAREI INTERESTS

Dargaville, the holders, defeated Whangarei, the challengers, at Whangarei yesterday, in the annual fire brigade competition for the Dargaville Citizens’ ShieldResults:— One-man Coupling Championship and Dressing—W. James (Whangarei), 1; Morris (Whangarei), 2. James completed in 64 8-ssec, but incurred a penalty of one second. Morris took one-fifth of a second longer. After the final event, Dargaville ran out winners by 13 points.

The third annual show under the auspices of the Portland Horticultural and Industrial Society was opened at Portland yesterday by Mr. T. H. Wilson, vicepatron. Record entries totalled over 1,000, of which 400 were in the school sections, and in the other events entries were forthcoming from all over the North, and even from the Waikato. Good weather prevailed and a large attendance enjoyed a very successful show. By 76 votes to 3 the ratepayers of the Kamo Town Board District have sanctioned a loan of £I.OOO for main highway reconstruction. The poll was a light one, less than half of those on the roll recording their votes. The particular purpose for which the loan is required is to provide the Kamo Town Board’s share of the proposed reconstruction in penetrated bitumen of the main Whangarei-Kawakawa highway through the town district from the borough boundary to the Rautangata Springs railway crossing for a width of 18ft. The Main Highways Board has agreed to subsidise the work at the rate of £3 for £1 and the Public Works Department lias arranged to undertake the work.