Rapid progress is being made with the construction of the piers of the Kawarau Gold Mining Company’s dam. The first pier is almost completed, while a start has been made with the second.
The blasting operations in preparation for the third pier are also in hand. Two concrete mixers and up-to-date machinery have been installed, and about 65 men are working on the site. The five gates, forming part of the second shipment from England, are on the site, and are in readiness to be fitted when the piers are in place. The final shipment, including the remainder of the gates and gear, arrived in Port Chalmers last week, and it is expected that they will be on the site next week.
Be prepared for exhibition
Among the manifold attractions of the New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition will be included one of unusual character in an assembly of Boy Scouts. All being well, there will be a large scouting pilgrimage, not confined to the dominion organisation. Arrangements are being made for the visit of a contingent from Australia, and the New Zealand Government is very properly giving material encouragement to the project.
It is seventeen years since Sir Robert Baden-Powell, happily inspired, started the Boy Scouts’ movement, to which the Girl Guides’ branch was subsequently attached. The enterprise quickly engaged public approval, and though it has had its incidental ups and downs, there can be little doubt that it is permanently established. - editorial
Where rubber hits the road
The review of the operations of the City Council during the past two years, which was given by the Mayor on the occasion yesterday of his re-installation in office, necessarily covered the ground that was traversed by retiring members of the Council in their election speeches.
The period was one of progress in all respects, more particularly, it may be suggested, in the adoption by the Council of a policy of tramway extension. The extensions that have been approved leave still unsatisfied the claims of the residents in various parts for facilities of conveyance to and from their homes.
The opinion has been expressed that the system of electric tramway traction, modern although it may be said to be, will in the near future be superseded by other systems. That is a view that cannot be wholly ignored by the Council, though it may not be one that at present should greatly influence them since the Corporation itself supplies the power by which the electric service is operated and does so at a relatively low cost.
The introduction of motor buses which shall serve as feeders to the tramway service and also ‘‘try out’’ the revenue possibilities of additional extensions of the tramway system that have been suggested, has been an event of only the past few weeks, but it is interesting to learn from the Mayor that the bus service to the Anderson’s Bay cemetery has already proved profitable. That being so, it is reasonable to suppose that a service of a similar nature to Maori Hill during the hours of the day when the traffic is heaviest would be not less profitable. The Mayor promises that the policy of the new Council will be one of advancement.
The personnel being substantially the same as that of the past four years, the community may anticipate that the affairs of the city will be conducted for the ensuing term upon the same lines as those with which it is familiar. — editorial
— ODT, 7.5.1925 (Compiled by Peter Dowden)
