FORTY YEARS' SERVICE
COUNTY COUNCILLOR'S RECORD MR F. J. BURT'S TERM One or the most interesting speaker:; at the Heads on Saturday was Mr F. J. Burl, a member of the Counly Council for forty years. Mr Curt treated the large andicr.ee to reminiscences of the days when the whole of the Rangilaiki was a vast swamp. He rccai'ed the i'aeL the.', al one lime he was the only man in Whakafaric who could play football and that it tooh a full clay to make I lie journey to Rotorua. The only newspaper was 1 lie Auckland Weekly News, which usually arrived a week old. The Maori population of the old da;rs was not as large as many people were led to suppose. But, in 1921 the County population numbered -178G, and since then it had sLoael i 1 y jnere ase d. He stated that the early Council meetings were held in a room where it was impossible 'to swing a cat.' hater the Councillors adjourned to She blacksmith's shop, but an inopportune -lioed had driven them out and so they had been forced to erect their own building, which served until the substantial modern building was construe led.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 137, 18 March 1940, Page 4
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200FORTY YEARS' SERVICE Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 137, 18 March 1940, Page 4
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