TURUA RATEPAYERS.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4536, 7 March 1923, Page 1

TURUA RATEPAYERS.

Q — MEETING OF ASSOCIATION. A meeting of the Turua Ratepayers’ Association was held in the Turua Buildings on Monday last. Mr D. G. McMillan presided over an attendance of about 18 members.

WATER TROUGH. I ' The secretary of the Netherton association wrote asking for the support of the Turusi association in getting a water trough erected ait Hikutaia railway station for the purpose of watering or cooling pigs and cattle in trucks in the railway yards. It was decided, op the motion of Mr Bagnall, seconded by Mr • Madgwick, that the Railway Department should be written to urging the necessity of this. t POLICE A "business man of Turua wrote asking for the assistance of the association in getting better police protection for the township, and quoted a case where a Are was started with the intent to burn his premises, but though the police were communicated with apparently no action was taken. After much discussion it was decided to write to the' constable in charge of the district, pointing out that complaints had been made, and asking him to give the matter his attention. TELEPHONE. ' In regard to a telephone for the Stock Inspector, Thames, the District Superintendent, Department of Agriculture, wrqte informing the association that the best course to pursue would be to make representations to the Director-General of the Department, Wellington. MEETING NIGHT. As the meetings of the Ratepayers’ Association and the School Committee were both held on the same evening the matter of altering the night was discussed, but in view of the approach of the school comimittee election, when the night of their meeting may be altered, nothing was done in the matter. HOLE JIN ROAD. Mr Baker pointed out that there was a big hole in »the road by the willow drain, and. mowed, that the County and the Town Board should be written to asking them tot attend ,to the matter. POWER BOARD’S! “TROUBLE MAN.” Mr Luke said t’hat at the present time there was an Electric Power Board “trouble ms,n” stationed in Turua. but he was to be transferred shortly to Ngatea, and suggested that the association should press for a permanent man to be stationed at Turua, as there was an ac ute necessity for a local man owing ! to the number of consumers of electricity. A motion to that effect was carried.