DISTRICT NEWS.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4440, 14 July 1922, Page 2

DISTRICT NEWS.

WAITAKARURU. SCHOOL COMMITTEE. At the recent Waitakaruru School Committee meeting the following attended : Messrs. C. W. Harris (chairman). S. P. Caie, N. W. Hedges, R. Hunter, apd J. Donaghy. In reply to a letter; from the Mangatarata School Committee asking t,hat the two committees should meet to define the boundaries for their respective schools, it was decided to reply suggesting that t,he committees should meet in conference at Waitakaruru to-day. The teacher was authorised to purchase a new football for the schoolboys. Among the accounts passed for payment were the amounts for the recently erected flag-pole. The pole itself cost £ll 4s 9d, while an amount of 18s was for the cost of! erection by a Harbour Board employee. To-day the chairman (Mr. Harris) will hoist the flag and officially bestow the flag-pole upon the children and the school. NGATEA. ROAD METALLING. The lack of the red binding gravel on the top of the rough blue metal is causing a little inconvenience to tyred traffic. Nearly the whole length of the road (1% miles) is now metalled, but only a very small portion has the top-dressing of red gravel. It is understood that there has been some delay in obtaining the gravel. The road should be a good one when completed, and be a vast improvement on what it was previously. r ELECTRIC POWER POLES. The Thames Valley Electric Power Board is showing considerable activity ii: the Ngatea area. Poles are being p it in from Ngatea towards Ker-a-peehi. A gang of men is camped in a number of tents about two miles from Ngatea.