KAWHIA DISTRICT.

King Country Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 164, 14 June 1909, Page 5

KAWHIA DISTRICT.

f In connection with the recent accij dent to Mr Wouldes' children it was fortunate that Dr C. C. Jenkins was at j Miarakopa, some four miles away. ! Mr Wouldes immediately despatched a ! messenger for the doctor, who arrived quickly after a record trip, the road being in a bad state with big holes and mud. The Doctor rendered all aid possible just arriving in time to save • one little boy from bleeding to death. ! Quite a spirit of competition has j started in the drapery line at Kawhia. ' Messrs Morey and Moore, of New Plyj mouth, have opened a shop in Tainui i street with a large stock of drapery ; and soft goods. Another shop alongside as being started by Mr Hamilton, of Kawhia, who has also started in the soft goods trade. Mr Hamilton also embarked in the auctioneering line recently. Our Town Board is to be congratulated on the progress made in street improvements lately, viz., the formation of Tainui street, and Powewe street leading to Tc Puru, Native township. Another work is being carried on just now, in the shape of a dray road along Lcathart street, leading to Karhewa Native township. A footpath is also being constructed from the wharf along Jervois street, near the Post oflicc, which will add greatly to the comfort of pedestrians. Important additions are being made to our Post office; also a builiing is being erected by the Roads Department office and store I understand. If we ecu;-.', only get that vast black space, that v/a3 illustrated in the New Zealand Herald recently, a space showing locked up Native lands, wiped out, and settled by encrgcl'c settlers, our town and district would boom, but as long as these lands lie idle wc cannot advance much above our present stage. --Hospital for Kawhia.—

We think the time has arrived for a cottage hospital to be established at Kawhia. Mcsdames Morgan and Newton, who deserve to be complimented on their efforts, are working energetically in raising funds, by getting up concerts an 3 dances. A large amount of money has been raised by the above ladies in quite a short space of time. Imagine a poor sufferer having to be conveyed,probably in Home cases twenty miles, along a bush track and then a distance of fifty miles to the Railway at Tc Awamutu and thence on to Hamilton Hospital. Quite recently we had two serious cases, Mr Harry Green with appendicitis, and Mr Harry Reed, with a badly broken leg. Luckily, a steamer happened to be in the Port each time, and so the sufferers were conveyed to Onchunga, and on to Auckland, just in time to avoid probably fatal results.