LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 June 1938, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Hockey Team Departs. Members of the Prince of Mandavar’s Indian hockey team left Masterton this morning by rail for Pahiatua, where they will play a Bush representative team tomorrow. During their stay in Masterton the tourists had their first taste of autograph-hunters. At their hotel and in the street, children and adults besieged them for signatures. Whenever possible, the visitors smilingly obliged. A Veritable Fairyland. Elaborate plans for the exterior lighting of the exhibition grounds and buildings for the centennial celebrations at Wellington ■in 1939-40 have been devised by the committee set up to inquire into the question. It will make the Lyall Bay grounds a veritable fairyland by night, a blaze of light seen from Mount Victoria, Melrose, Seatoun Heights, or other eminences, and visible from far out across the waters of Cook Strait. Close up, the effect will be still more imposing. “If the visitor does not pause on entering the main gate, and gape with wonder at it, we shall consider that we have failed,” said a member of the lighting committee yesterday.

Difficult New Zealand Roads.

That steeper grades and sharper bends are to be met with on New Zealand roads than on Swiss roads, is the opinion of Mr J. Gillitzer, who has been lent as a technical expert by Robert Bosch, of Stuttgart, to a New Zealand firm. Mr Gillitzer, who has competed in motor trials over the Brenner Pass, said that the valleys he had seen in New Zealand appeared to be narrower than those to which he was accustomed in Europe, with the result that the roads had to be cut into the hillsides instead of following up gentlyrising flats. Large Coal Deal Likely. The likelihood of a large coal deal taking place in Dunedin shortly was mentioned to a reporter by Mr I. S. Macdonald, who is promoter of a company which is now being formed to take over the assets, plant and mines of the Kaitangata Coal Company, Ltd. The new company proposes to form a harbour at the mouth of the Molyneux River and to use its own ships for the delivery of coal to various ports in the North and South Islands. The promoter states that reports furnished by reliable engineers indicate that the formation of a harbour at Kaitangata is possible by placing breakwaters and half-tide walls at the Matau mouth of the Molyneux River. The proposed capital of the new company is £550,000.