DISTRICT NEWS.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4373, 3 February 1922, Page 3

DISTRICT NEWS.

KEREPEEHI.. THE EASTER SPORTS. For some years past the Kerepeehi Sports Club has held an anpual athletic gathering on Easter Monday. The time for this year’s event is drawing near, and it is apparent that something should soon be done to set things moving ,if this year’s sports are to be a success. Ngatea has n« sports club, and it has been suggested that Ngatea and Kerepeehi should combine and make a really big meeting of it. The Kerepeehi sports have been successful in past years, and will r.o doubt be even more successful the next time, but the combined efforts of .the two centres would undoubtedly make a bigger day on. Easter Monday. Perhaps some sportsmen in each centre will think fit tp give this suggestion a little consideration. TURUA. THE SPORTS CLUB. The Hauraki Plains Athletic anA Sports Club has a decided asset in possessing a hard working executive, which has efficient leaders. They appear to be sparing no effort to make the sports next Thursday an outstanding success. The ground 1 has been carefull prepared in readiness for sports day, and other preliminary arrangements are rapidly being made. At a meeting of the committee on Wednesday evening duties were detailed. to several subcommittees to make perfect the final arrangements. There was a good attendance, of com-i mitteemen, who showed great enthusiasm in next week’s event. TENNIS. At Turua tomorrow Waitakaruru will play Turua a match in the Laidlaw Cup competition. The Turua team will be selected from the folio wl- - Mesdaihes Melsop, McMillan, B c ott, and Phelps; Misses M. Heaped and K Miller. Messrs J. L. Brownlee, D. G, McMillan, Wright, J. M. Deveraux, J. Miller, C. Scott, S. Bagnall, J. Mules, G. Spencer, and P. R. Henry. NGATEA. ROAD METALLING. The Lands Department has completed the rmetalling of a short stretch from the Ngatea bridge along the Ngarua Road. Some metal has also been put on the road between the store and the saleyards to put the surface in better order.