ELTHAM.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 January 1920, Page 3

ELTHAM.

(From Our Own Correspondent.) The question that is uppermost now is how long are we to be in darkness. With the exception of about four lamps, wo are absolutely without street lights, and for anyone living any distance from the main street it is anything but pleasant. The Council have had a man engaged ill cleaning up the cemetery, and it now looks as if someone had an interest in it. A party of visitors there recently expressed their pleasure at seeing the place so well kept, one from Auckland' remarking that, with few exceptions, these places were sadly neglected. They took some snaps of paths of it before leaving. The new Co-operative building is Hearing completion, and it should not be long now before the Assn. will be in possesssion. Owing to the cost of living, men who have to 'work for a daily wage are continually on the look-out for something better, with the result that employers find it difficult to keep good men. For this reason the Box Factory has granted an increase this last fortnight of Is a day to their employees. Writing from England, a soldier says: —"We have shifted some of our ice huts, and are now comfortably housed in the main building at Mount Felix, where we have electric lights, and can get a coke fire, so things are much better. There are two boats leaving here, one on November 29th and one on January 4th, so I expect to get one of them. It has been snowing here, but as we have plenty of work one can keep tolerably warm. Armistice Day was observed here, the silent two minutes being rigidly kept, and ft bit of celebrating at night." Men have been busy clearing the ragwort, etc., off the reserve, and it looks all the better for it. The School Committee are already talking of getting the hedges planted' round their portion of it. Well, there's nothing like getting in early, and they should be well grown before the Government starts to build, as it usually takes a few years.