The terms of the Rangltikei Power Board to supply Ratana Settlement with power and light are £250 per mile for the transmission lines from Turakina. The board will instal the wires to the 200 houses at the pa provided the Maoris pay .the accounts in one lump sum monthly and collect from the individual consumers. “New Zealand is becoming Americanised very rapidly indeed,” said Professor T. A. Hunter, when speaking on “Education and Life” at Wellington on Monday. "Cheap novels, picture theatres, our methods of business, all are being swayed by American farces,” he added. “These ‘things,” he said, “will not advance our education. Rather than raise our standards, they will lower and deteriorate them.”
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4947, 5 March 1926, Page 3
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