TWENTY YEARS AGO

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 32, Issue 3290, 19 July 1943, Page 3

TWENTY YEARS AGO

HIKUTAIA SCHOOL CLOSE! PTAKO RIVER IN FLOOD STOCK MOVED TO HIGH LAND (From the Hauraki Plains Gazette of July 9, 1923) Recently Mrs Haigh was appointed to the Hikutaia West •School, but evidently some hitch has arisen as the school has not been open since the relieving teacher, Miss O’Laughlin, left for Taumaruniii nearly a fortnight

ago. Owing to the recent flood ■ this school was closed for a week, thus a considerable amount of lee- , way will have "to be made up. Owing to the spring tides the Piako River is still at flood level. Most of the surface water has gone, but the ground is still very wet. At Kopuarahi very little improvement is noticeable, and several farms are still completely under water. An extra outlet has been cut across the road near the school and the water is getting away very quickly. It will be impossible for the Kopuarahi School to be opened until the water subsides. Over two thousand cows have gone through Waitakaruru to the hill country around Mangatarata and Maramarua during the last few days.