They are manufactured in five different sizes, varying from two to ten tons. Inquiries will be welcomed from any person, town or county council, flaxmill or timber mill interested.
Good day for a holiday
God save the King! Scatter his enemies, confound their politics, frustrate their knavish tricks! With apologies to the League of Nations, I am not disposed to be squeamish in using the time-honoured words of brave defiance. To-morrow will be King George’s birthday, and the sixty-first anniversary will find his “throne unshaken still, broad-based upon his people’s will and compassed by the inviolate sea.” — by “Wayfarer”
DCC backs RUC
A conference between the City Council and various local bodies relative to the apportionment of heavy traffic license fees was held in the Town Hall yesterday, and was attended by about 40 delegates. The Mayor (Mr H.L. Tapley MP), who presided, extended a welcome to those present, and said it was not often that they had a gathering of representatives of public bodies in Otago. They had met together to discuss a rather knotty problem, which he thought they could unravel, in connection with motor lorry license fees and their distribution. The position was that the City Council, as the principal authority in the province, and which collected the largest amount of fees in connection with the motor regulations, considered that, the time had come when all should be called together in order to arrive at a basis for dealing with these fees. The motion that the meeting adopt the distribution of fees on a mileage basis was carried, the Mayor remarking that he thought they had done the right thing.
Car races away
When coming down the crest of Saddle Hill yesterday on the return journey from the Wingatui races, a motor car, owing to a defect in its steering gear, ran off the road and fell into a gully about 100 feet deep. The occupants of the car were fortunate in escaping with only minor injuries.
‘Flood of raffles’ criticised
At the meeting of Dunedin Presbytery last evening, the Moderator (the Rev E.J. Tipler) presented a report on behalf of a Public Questions Committee. He drew attention to the great publicity being given to art unions and raffles. He moved — “That Presbytery records its emphatic disapproval of the flood of raffles let loose upon the country apparently unchecked by the department concerned, and deplores the continuance of this evil with all its baleful consequences.” The motion was carried. — ODT, 2.6.1926
