ENTERTAINMENTS. DISTRICT NEWS.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4584, 9 July 1923, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

DISTRICT NEWS.

< KEREPEEHI. t-Sfc. DREDGES. The pontoon for a big American dipper dredge which has peen under construction at Kerepeehi for som®r months was completed last week-anu will be launched within a few days. The Kingston dredge is at present . deepening the slipway. The pontoon $ is eighty feet long, and when fitted with machinery will be the biggest dredge on the Plains. The machinery is at present at, Kerepeehi. A start was made last week with the job of reassembling a Priestman dredge which had-been dismantled for overhaul. The Lands Department ’ steamer Hauraki has also been undergoing overhaul. The Kingston dredge has widened the river at Kerepeehi to a point opposite the wharf. • THE SCHOOL. The Kerepeehi School Committee 1 has been advised that a grant for the .1 erection of another classroom has bean authorised. ngatea. STOCK SALE. . There- was a full yarding arf, t|)W, Loan and Mercantile Agency’s Ngatea ' yards on Friday, and a ftir attendance, but competition was dull. No dairy cows of quality were yarded, the best bringing £8 and £lO. Backward and inferior springers brougnt / from 50s to £5 10s. There was only - a small yarding of beef. , Fat cows realised from £3 5s to £5. The store catt’-e market was very dull, and only a few pens changed hands. Rougn and inferior cows brought from_2ss to £2. CHARITY CONCERT. Owing tp the very wet weather there was, such a poor attendance at the concert in aid of Sister Esther’s fund given by a Kerepeehi concert pa’-iy at Ngatea on Thursday evening that the programme was cur-’" tailoii and the floor cleared for d-’nc- , ing. When given at Keiepeehi centlv the concent was a great sue- - cess, the Ngatea people are hoping that the party will again visit Ngatea when Jupiter Pluvius is in a better humour.