LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taranaki Daily News, 16 November 1926, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL

With regard to the proposed extensions to the New Plymouth waterworks system, the Borough Council decided last night not to include filters in the scheme.

Applications for employment made at the New Plymouth office of the Department of Labour last week totalled 20. The applicants included eleven labourers, three farm hands, one engine-driver, one motor driver, one grocer, one clerk, one fitter, one tramway motonnan. An immigrant boy employed by a well-known Pihama farmer, approached Iris employer the other day and informed him that one of his horses was out on the road. Whert asked which one the youth replied, “The one with the mackintosh on,” referring to one of the horses covered with a rug. A collision, fortunately without serious consequences, occurred on the Junction Hoad yesterday morning between a milk delivery van belonging to the Meonstoke Dairies and a motor-cycle. Although the motor-cycle was considerably damaged and had to be left on the roadside, the rider was not injured, while beyond a scratch or two the van escaped damage. A loader for use on the New Plymouth street works has been constructed mostly out of the parts of the old street sweeper, and on being given a trial run was found satisfactory, filling a four cubic yard trench in eight nun utes. This will eliminate at least four men during the course of work during the tarring season, and the machine will also be utilised for loading at the crusher.

To further investigate the proposal to construct a high-level roadway to connect the Dawson Falls and Stratford mountain houses, a party of eight, including Messrs. J. C. Robins (chairman of the East Committee of the Egmont National Park Board), T. R. Anderson and P. Thomson (members of the board), were taken over the route proposed by Messrs. G. D. Hunter and A. W. Burrell, on Sunday. The latter two had previously eut a preliminary survey track through the bush.

The luxuriant growth incidental to the late warm weather with copious rains is very manifest on Baine’s Terrace, which is more than usually well sheltered and damp. The result is that in many places which had been dealt with, and which one had considered cleaned up for. the season, much work has to be done over again. Thus progress is slow. However, the work is being pushed, and something was accomplished on Saturday last. Afternoon tea was kindly provided for the workers by Mrs. Blundell. The succession of floods experienced during the last two months has done no serious djrect damage. The repeated disorganisation on all sections of the work, however, has been costly, and the completion of the scheme delayed about four weeks. If the weather improves, however, and there is no serious breakdown in the construction plant, we consider that the main tunnel and pipe line can be filled and the turbines started up before Christmas.—This is an extract from Mr. H. R. Climie’s report to the Taranaki Electric Power Board at yesterday’s meeting. An explanation of a short interruption in the New Plymouth electrical supply at 6.40 p.m. last Friday was made by the electrical engineer (Mr. W. H. Huggett) at a meeting of the Borough Council last night. He stated that it occurred through a rat coming into contact with the high tension terminals of one of the instrument transformers in the tramway cubicle. This caused the main breaker on one line to trip at the sub station, and the other line breaker to trip at the power-house, thus interrupting the lighting supply for a very short period. The traction supply was interrupted for from 15 to 20 minutes. The whole board was isolated on Sunday morning and made as rat-proof as possible by closing up all the openings, cable ways, etc. "I am told there is a church in Winnipeg which holds its morning service early so that the men may get off for their game of golf. Their golfing togs are in the vestry for them to rush off, when the Benediction has been said. .For them the Sabbath is over when that service is over, but there is no quarter, no half Sabbath Day,” said Rev. W. M. Rochester, of the Dominion Alliance, speaking in the First Baptist Church at Vancouver. “What is the reason for bands playing in rhe parks on Sunday? Is it for uplift? No, usually it is for the profit of some street railway or vendor of ice cream,” he said. “I have heard it said that the difference between Sunday in Canada and the United States is the Lord's Day Alliance. We are trying to maintain the integrity of (he Sabbath.”

Au exceptionally smart trip between Auckland ami Sydney of three days and three hours was made by the Union Company’s motor ship Aoiangi, which reached Sydney on Sunday afternoon, This time is one of the Aorangi’s best performances since she entered the Vancouver mail service early last year. Having landed passengers, mails and cargo, and embarked a number of passengers for Sydney, the Aorangi left Auckland in continuation of her voyage from Vancouver at twenty minutes past one on Tuesday afternoon last. A cablegram states that the motor ship entered Sydney Heads at 4.30 on Sunday afternoon. She thus covered the distance from port to port in three days three, hours and ten minutes.

On Friday last a young married man named G. L. Taylor, employed, by Mr. A. Davey, of Kaponga, experienced a miraculous escape from serious, if not fatal, injury. While driving a twohorse waggon, laden with 30001bs. of milk, to the factory, he dropped a rein, and, in endeavouring to recover it, lost his balance and fell on the tar-sealed roadway. The waggon wheels passed over his thighs. Assistance and medical attention were promptly at hand, and the sufferer was conveyed to his home. So far as is ascertainable at present no bones were broken, though the bruising and laceration sustained will incapacitate Mr. Taylor for a considerable period. —Star.

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