ROTORUA NOTES

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 926, 20 March 1930, Page 7

ROTORUA NOTES

From Our Oxen Correspondent ItOTORUA, Wednesday. Ml*. C. 31. Clinkard, M.P., states that for some time he has been pressing i for expenditure of money on the Rotorua - Taupo Road. He had just had a satisfactory communication from ; the Minister of Public Works, and ho 1 had every hope that some action would ' be taken shortly. A deputation of men who are being I put off from the Forestry Department, j Rotorua (representing some 300), waited upon Mr. C. IT. Clinkard, M.P.. on Wednesday morning. They asked (1) that instead of being, discharged now, they might be found work until the end of the month; (2) if any arrangement could be made for additional employment on roads or any other work in the near future. Mr. Clinkard interviewed the Prime Minister at Prince’s Gate immediately, and he promised to get into communication with the Minister of Forestry and Public Works at once. These men have been engaged on planting in the forest areas throughout the summer, but that work has now ceased, the planting season having concluded. In view of the big contracts being tendered with regard to roading and buildings, it is not expected that unemployment will be so acute during the coming winter in Rotorua, although the milling areas seem likely • to suffer. j The lion. J. G. Cobbe arrived in | Rotorua on Tuesday evening on a fly- [ l ing visit to the Prime Minister. Sir Joseph Ward. He left again on Wednesday morning. - Constable A. J. Kelly, from Auck- ' land, arrived on Tuesday evening to replace Constable Johnson, who is now J in charge at Tokaanu. Since the latter’s departure some months ago, the ’ local police force has been severely ’ taxed to keep ahead of its work. 1 I The timber industry at Mamuka is at present in a very slack condition, and tho prospects for the winter months are by no means bright. Messrs. Steele Bros, and Gamman and . Co.’s mills can now only fill out four days a week. Tho final meeting of the Mamaku j Athletic Sports Club showed very suca cessful financial results. Entries were ' larger than ever, ard the club is now . in tho happy position of having a \ credit balance of £75. At the cont elusion of the meeting, Mr. F. G. Reed, . chairman, was presented with a solid leather suitcase in recognition of his e services as chairman for the past f three years, during which time the J club has made great progress. i The nursing staffs of the Rotorua | district have decided to hold a gar- • ! den party at King George A'. Hospi- *• | tal on March 26, to aid the fund being J - j raised .as Rotorua’s quota of the scheme | to provide for a chair of obstetrics at I Otago University.