GENERAL NEWS.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 19 March 1926, Page 8

GENERAL NEWS.

Inquiries are now being made from 'Wellington as to the possibility of a regular supply of quinnat salmon from Tirnaru.

Owing to engine trouble, the slow train from Ashburton yesterday morning was more than an hour late in arriving at Tirnaru.

Extensive repairs to the Rangitata bridge are to be commenced on March 2.1, and while these are in progress the bridge will be closed to traffic between 8 a.m. and noon, and from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., Sundays excepted.

A cable message from Sydney announces that the underwriters have received advice of serious fires in No. 3 hold of the steamer Paparoa. The vessel is now off the south-west coast of South Africa.

The North Canterbury Acclimatisation Society have decided to introduce chukor, a species of partridge, native to India, into the hill country of North Canterbury. The birds have been ordered, and they are expected to arrive towards the end of the winter or in the early spring.

Mr J. R. Struck, manager of the Education Court at the Dunedin Exhibition, telegraphed last night: “The South Canterbury school excursionists are returning on Friday. All are well and happy. Congratulations to scholars and staff on excellent conduct and discipline.” It is expected that the excursion train will reach Tirnaru at about one o’clock.

There is a proposal on foot to establish another travelling school for Canterbury and North Otago during the coming winter. The matter will be discussed with Mr F. E. Ward (instructor in agriculture for Canterbury) at a meeting of the executive of the Farmers’ Union in Tirnaru this morning.

In compliance with a request from Mr L. F. Arson, Chief Inspector of Fisheries for New Zealand, the range* for the South Canterbury Acclimatisation Society (Mr J. S. Main) took 200 voung brown trout to Dunedin yesterday for the aquarium at the Exhibition. The fish, which were carried in seven cans, went by the relief express, the ranger taking blocks of ice with him to add to the water to-keep it cooi en route.

Drivers of motor cars touring from south to north through Tirnaru frequently tako the wrong road when they reach-‘the foot of Wai-iti hill, opposite Caroline Bay. Instead of going straight on, they go up the hill named because it is asphalted and the main road it not. A resident of Wai-iti motorists whom ho met on AYai-iti read says that he advised a dozen tin' wrong turn.

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