KAWHIA.

King Country Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 173, 15 July 1909, Page 5

KAWHIA.

! (Own Correspondent.) A most pleasant gathering of about thirty residents of Kawhia assembled at tbe "Kawbia Settler" office last Saturday night to bid farewell to the ate proprietor, Mr H. H. Pettit, and welcome Mr Schnackenburg, who has lately taken over the paper. Various toasts were proposed and heartily responded to. some lengthy and feeling speeches being made. The weather has been very rough of late. Last Friday and Saturday a very strong easterly gale blew; launches broke away from their moorings; boats got adrift, and were battered up. Mr Newton's launch Mamro suffered rather badly. The ferry pant also broke away, and floated away some distance. All the rivers in the district were |n high Seed. Mr J. Frame is pushing on with tbe Oparau wharf and tangling abed, many of tbe piles and onderstructure being in position. Mr Heywood Armstrong has made a start with the Awaroa wharf and shed.

A meeting of the Kawhia County Council was held yesterday, and ten'ders opened for enlarging tbe present wharf and shed. Mr J. Scott was the successful tenderer.

I learn that the County Clerk has received word from tbe Treasury Department that tbe lean of £2500 for metalling tbe Pahoenoi-Kawbia Sooth road is now available, so altogether our local bodies will be very active for some time. Metalled roads arc very much needed in this district.^ A young man, named Kingstone, was arrested at Marakopa yesetrday by Constable Wade, for appropriating monies of his late employer at Auckland. Mr T. D. Hamilton, auctioneer, held his first sate yesterday at bis mart, being very successful. Mr J. K. Newton has been appointed Commissioner for the Kawhia Public School, owing to the statutary meeting last April, having failed to make a quorum. At a meeting of tbe Kawhia County Council last Saturday tbe Councillors extended to Mrs Ormsby and relatives their deepest sympathy in their rceent sad bereavement, and also to tbe members of the Waitomo County Council at the loss of a valuable colleague, and recorded the resolution on the minutes.