PUKERUA BAY

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 21, 25 January 1934, Page 3

PUKERUA BAY

LOCAL IMPROVEMENTS

A party of about 200 residents and holiday' maker* assembled at the 'handsome new bathing house dressing rooms, Pukerua Bay, on .Anniversary Day to participate in the ofticial opening. Mr. G. ,M. Henderson, president of the Pukerua Ratepayers' Association, urged ratepayers to support the committee in its endeavour to make Pukerua a pleasant seaside resort. The ratepayers were indebted to the Hutt County Council, and especially to the member for the Taupo1 Ridjng (Mr. K. L. Button) for the handsome new rooms now being opened. Thanks were also due to MeWs. F. Basire, A. Mann, T. Mann, and a,team of workers, who had given assistance. Reference was made to the active work of Mr. Button in connection with the various other local improvements. ' 4 In the course of his reply Mr. Button said that the Paremata Bridge proposal was most important, and he hoped to assist in removing the existing obstacles to tlieTcarrying out of the undertaking. The difficulty at present, he said, was that the loan for its construction depended upon a vote' over Jfche whole county, 'and many other parts of the ,Hiitt Comity were not interested in the bridge." The council hoped to have this difficulty removed in the near future. ." .. y' Mr, 'R. > Wall, speaking as', a permanent resident, gave soriie of the early history of Pukerua Say. When his father settled there in the fifties of last cenutry the district was a dangeroiisi place to live in owing to■: the of. the two Maori chiefs Te Rauparaha; and Rangihaeata.