IN THE NEWS.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 406, 13 April 1937, Page 4

IN THE NEWS.

o , A DISPUTE SETTLED. A dispu.c between the Maiiawatu- ’ Orona Elec ric Power Board and the [ Palmerston North City Council Which 1 '.las been a master of several years’ | standing is announced as settled as | the result of a conference of both I parties '. t h Hon., IL Semple, Mims-I ter of Public Works. ! INDUSTRIAL LABOUR. Al’nott 300 delegates representing Labour industrial organisations in ] many parts of the Dominion \ '.ll at- j end a conference at Wellington to- j morrow. The object.ls to devise one I national body to control industrial | labour throughout the couii ry in j place of the numerous, authorities at i present in existence. WELLINGTONS NEW STATION. The Minister of railways, Hon. D. G. Sullivan, announced at Wanganui yesterday that work on the ne»' Welling on station and terminal had progressed to the stage where ithe com pletiqn of the undertaking was in sight. Arrangements were being made accordingly to- the building 'to | be officially opened »nd brought into-] use on Saturday, Jute 12. A NAME ONLY. The Three Lamps at Ponsonby, Auckland, is now a name only. For many years three gas lamps in the middle of the roadway at the junction of Ponsonby and Jervois roads was one of the best-known landmarks I in Auckland, and gave the name to ' he surrounding district. In lime thegas lamps wtere removed, and in their | .il.ee were erected three electric i'gh t, v'hich in their turn had to go when the tramway centre poles were removed. There is a good deal . of feeling in Ponsonby that the lamps as a landmark should be perpetuated, but as yet there it. nothing to indicate how one of the best known parts of the city originally got its name.

♦-AVON BOWLING COMPETITIONS. ■ C. V. Kidd won the Rogers Cup in the Avon Bowling Club competitions. I The handicap, pairs event was won i by T. Bulman and N. Bird, and C. V. 'Kidd won the B tingles championShip. . ] RECLAMATION WORK AT NAPIER | Grea., interest is taken -by visitors !to Napier in the work of reclaiming ' Tie ’.de Ahurirb fla s, tyliere the bed iof tlie Ahuriri Lugoou tUoaled in the j ,rtav earthquake of IU3I. Thete 7000 ! crcs of former provide one if Jie strangest examples of the | change effected by the upheaval, lor I where seven years ago yachts, sailed land fish dabblelt; today the clover I draws Hie honey-bees and the sheep j graze in fertile fields. | HE AWATEA. | When the arrived at Auckland yesJ erday afternoon from Sydney, the Union Company’s express liner Awatea compleved her 50th crossing of the Tasman Sea since the entered the service last September. In less han seven mon hs the ship has steamed 67,514 miles, a remarkable performance that probably is unequalled by any other ship in the I world, with the possible exception*’ of the Queen Mary and Normandie. ENGLAND AND AMERICA. Trade appeared to have received great impetus in England, said Mr Ueorge Stewart, a Dunedin business num, who has returned from an extended- tour abroad. In America business generally was approaching ' boom conditions, and general apprei henslon was felt whether the infla- ; ion could be controlled. It was us- ! nally agreed, however, that if a crisis I was to come it would not be for tait least two years. SUNDAY EXCURSION, All good things must come to an end, including Summer with its picnics and excursions. An advertisement appearing in this issue announces that the Hawera-Breakwater Sunday trains will run for one more Sunday only.