DISTRICT NEWS.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4470, 22 September 1922, Page 2

DISTRICT NEWS.

PATETONGA. WEATHER NOTES. Everywhere there is ample evidence of spring. Pink peach-tree blossoms and the white blooms on the many plum trees blend well with the new green leaves of the trees and the verdancy of the pastures. The air is full of spring. Fine, wann days and cold, frosty, nights have been the, order recently. The -lengthening days are almost like summer weather. ■ observations. The spell of fine weather has dried up the roads wonderfully well, and the clay surfaces are in very good order. Between Ngatea and Patetonga the road is good all the way, with the exception of ;a short piece near where the dredge Js working, while the road to Tahuna is in very fair order. Advantage is being taken of the fine weather to carry on with the work pf forming the .tram-line road. The clay, which is being taken from a hill at the top end of the township, is being trucked down the tram-line-The lower portion of the .township has undergone a transformation with the appearance of two new buildings. A commodious billiard saloon, built by Messis Evans Bros., has been completed. while the new post office Is rapidly taking shape, and should be completed in about 10 days’ or a fortnight’s time. ' THE BILLIARD SALOON. A smoke concert was held in the new billiard saloon on Saturday evening to celebrate the .completion of building. It is a commodious, building, 38ft by 30ft, nicely finished inside with asbestos sheeting. Space is provided for a later addition of two front shops. The two new billiard tables arrived on Tuesday. CHILDREN’S BALL. ■_ There is at present a movement afoot in Patetonga to inaugurate a fancy dress.ball for the children of the district, and a meeting of those interested is to be held this week. If the children’s function is as successful as the recept fancy dress ball, the committee should be more than satisfied with its ACCLIMATISATION SOCIETY. '■ Though the Patetonga branch ofl the Acclimatisation Society is yet in its infancy some creditable work has already been done. Last year 5000 rainbow trout-were liberated in the Waikaka and Mangawhero streams. This year the operations on the streams' on the western side of the Hauraki Plains have been extended, and the Patetonga branch pf the society received from the Government hatcheries at LRotorua 10,000 rainbow trout. These were this week liberated in the Maukoro, Waikaka, Maungawhero, and Ngarua streams. Teh pheasants were let loose in the district last autumn. Patetonga, with its natural advan? tages should soon be the paradise of the sportsman. There is no area oh the Plains where the fresh water streams are so abundant. In Mr) Ajlex Whitemap the local branch of the Acclimatisation Society has an energetic secretary. With a little more public sympathy in the society’s work it should prosper in that, quarter. FOOTBALL. ? The closing of the football season will come on Saturday with a friendly match at Patetonga between the local fifteen and Ngatea. The Patetonga team is as follows: N. Costello, Dalzeil, R. Paton, Tuhoij G. Garry, G. Paton, E. Evans, J. Garry (rover), Millington, Dunn, Henry, Bolton, Newdick, Benny, Foote. KEBEPEEHI. HOSPITAL FUNDS. Offers, of donations towards the purchase of a site for a hospital at Kerepeehi .now total over £6O, This amount is nearly double that announced in our columns a fortnight ago. It is anticipated that many more such promises will be forthcoming, not On 1 '? from Kerepeehi isettlers, but also from other centres on the Plains which the hospital will benefit. Last Saturday a meeting of ladles was hell in connection with a suggestion to hold a bazaar for. the hospital funds. Another meeting / has been convened to be held tn the;ha«l this eveping. A meeting of the ball committee was held in Mr Avey’s rpoms on Tuesday and further arrangements were made for the holding of a masquerade •ball in a fortnight’s time. This function is also to be in aid of the hospital funds.