LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 349, 1 April 1911, Page 5

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

_ » A meeting of the Auckland Land Board will be held in Te Kuiti on Wednesday, April 12th. Attention is drawn to the advertisement appearing in this issue notifying the fact that the adjourned dairy meeting will beheld in the "Chronicle" office on Friday evening next, at 7.30. Mr Williams, recently in charge of the Taumaranui road district, and now in charge of the revived Te Kuiti district, reached here on Thursday. Metalling ceased on the Awakino road a few days j\go. The weather cannot be blamed", and we can only suppose the small additional grant recently authorised has been expended. It will be a thousand pities if this work does not continue just as long as the weather allows, and some strong representaiona should be made to that effect at once. The monthly meeting of the Boy Scouts committee will be held in the "Chronicle" office on Monday evening. Additions to St. Luke's church will be opened on Easter Day. The Vestry reminds parishioners that no collection has been made for the building fund, and asks for liberal offerings on that dav. Offerings from those who cannot be present will be thankfully received. The Mayor mentioned at Wednesday's Borough Council meeting that a Taranaki county council, which had a steam roller, had just decided to order two others. The reason given was that they had come to the conclusion, after years of experience, that a rolled road added ten years to its life, besides giving immense benefit to the traffic using it. Tho vagaries of the printer's devil make our report of the Otorohanga saleyarda read "Mr Boddie said—The sentiment that their own centre was the better did not animate the public men of both To Kuiti and Otorohanga." The word "not" is obviously an error. It makes rubbish of the sentence, and if we thought it was the truth it would be a bad day for both towns. Wc thank Mr T. E. Foy for the following statistics of the rainfall for March: On the 3rd .OcUn, and on the 4th .07in; total .15in on two days. In March last year 3.40 in fell on ten days. For the three months of the present year 2.98 in only has fallen, compared with at least 12in for the same period last year. The barometer has fallen Bharply to-day, but is still very high. Asked by the Mayor on Wednesday night what he thought of the source of water supply from what he had seen of it, Mr Bignell, of the Spiral Steel Pipe Company, said that it was a first-class supply, and one likely to last the town for a good mnay years. The Mayor remarked that this was the driest season we had ever experienced, so the test taken now was a very severe one. The Otorohanga Town Board has received the Dominion Analyst's report on the sample of water taken from the public well at Otorohanga. Briefly put. Di Maclatirin states that the water is of good quaity for potable purposes. In forwarding the report, Dr Makgill states that wells in such soil as that of the town are very liable to pollution, and every effort should bo made to prevent contamination by abolishing cess-pits in the vicinity. The Taumarunui loan poll was taken on Tuesday and was carried by a majority of three to one. Rating on the unimproved value was carried by a still larger majority. The poll is one for £2(5,(183 made up of water supply £13000; drainage £3183; road formation £1350; lighting £4000; recreation ground and fire brigade, £900; year's interest and cost of raising, loan, £pjr>o.