BOROUGH WORKS

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 14, 22 May 1939, Page 5

BOROUGH WORKS

ROUTINE MAINTENANCE JOBS Borough vorkmcn are at present, engaged on general seasonal maintenance work in preparation for more wintry conditions. Drains have received attention and various other jobs of similar natiure put in hand. On Friday the sealed intersection of Wairere Street with the Strand was sprayed and covcred with fine metal. Potholes had been patched a day or two earlier. The patching was also extended to other places in T.he Strand, wea<c spots getting a coat of tar, some screenings, and the application of a roller. 4 , "KAIAPOF* IN LONDON When Maori words creep into the prosaic nomenclature of an EnglisA city they are apt, not surprisingly, to puzzle the many citizcns who know little or nothing of New Zealand and its inhabitants. This inquiry -was published recently in the Sunday Times, Lftndgn .under the heading ''Greek at" "On the outskirts of Leatherhead, at the 'roundabout' by the gasworks, "I often drive past a row of smad houses called 'Kaiapoi Cottages.' The word ha? a distinctly Greek appearance. as if it should be pronounced 'Gaiaroi.' Can any of your readers tell me the origin of this odd name? —K. T. Dowding, Whitewalls, Kings bury Green, N.W.9.-' Apparently no one in the newspaper office through whose hands the inquiry passed could draw for the correspondent the necessary distinctions between Grcc.k and Maori; i,t will be • surprising indeed if the inquirer has not, by now, received enlightenment rom a good many of the New Z_-a-» 'ar.ders dom'cild in London.