THAMES COUNTY NOTES

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 536, 13 December 1928, Page 2

THAMES COUNTY NOTES

At the monthly meeting of the Thames County Council yesterday, a letter was received from Mr. Handley's solicitor notifying the council that if the toad adjacent to his property, Hikutaia, was closed, he would ask for a Supreme Court injunction restraining the council from its contemplated action. Mr. O. G. Thornton, of the Public Works Department, notified the council that the Highways Board was prepared to pay local bodies authorised quota monthly if desired. The council considered this innovation a decided improvement, and decided in future to render a monthly statement to the board. It was decided to erect bathing sheds and conveniences at Tapu (Thames Coast), and the engineer was authorised to proceed with the work. The Highways Board is to be asked to gazette the Matatoki Road as a secondary highway. There was £I,OOO to be spent on the road by the council, and if it were made a highway the subsidy would be £2 to £l. The chairman stated that the Highways Board had supported the motion on its recent visit. . KAIKORAI LEFT SUVA.—Advice received by the Union Company's local office reports the departure from Suva at 1.45 a.m. to-day of the steamer Kalkorai for Auckland. The vessel pays off on arrival at this port. CARGO FROM NEW YORK. —It is reported that the A. and A. Line chartered steamers Treworlas and Keelung are fixed to sail from New York on January 5 and 20 respectively, for Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton and Dunedin. WAIRUNA LEFT PACIFIC COAST.— At noon on Sunday last, December 9, the Union Company’s trans-Pacific cargo steamer Wairuna was dispatched from Los Angeles for Papeete, Auckland, Wellington, Melbourne and Sydney. She is due at Auckland on January 6. CANADIAN BRITISHER TO-MOR-ROW. —With cargo from Eastern Canada, the Canadian National Steamships steamer Canadian Britisher is due at Auckland at 8 a.m. to-morrow, according to her wireless report received yesterday by the company’s local office. She will berth at Prince’s Wharf to discharge. KARAMEA SAILING.—For London, via Panama, with a cargo of New’ Zealand produce, the Shaw, Savill and Albion Company’s new motor-ship Karamea is to bf» dispatched from Auckland this afternoon. The vessel loaded at Central Wharf, A. S. Paterson and Company being the local agent. O. A. KNUDSON COMlNG.—Cabled news has been received by the Union Company that the tanker O. A. Knudson left San Pedro at midnight on Sunday tor Wellington. The vessel brings fuel oil for discharge into the company’s tanks at Miramar, and is due there on January 3.

"ALL WELL” ON HIGHLANDER.—A wireless message has been received by the Canadian National Steamships from the Canadian Highlander, which left Auckland on Saturday evening for New \ ork, Boston and Halifax, reporting, "All well; making good speed." The vessel, it will be remembered, had to have a new propeller blade fitted at Auckland last week.