ARIA.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 595, 20 August 1913, Page 5

ARIA.

SCHOOL COMMITTEE

Own Correspondent

Last Saturday the Aria School Committee held its usual monthly meeting at Kaeaea school, which is in the Aria school district. There were present, Messrs G. F. Nelson A. Smith, S. Riddle and Geo. Petrie, hon. ssc. Messrs Collins and Dollimors sent apologies. Correspondence was read from the Bible in Schools League, and candidates for seac? on the Board of Education. Subscriptions for impovement of the Aria schoolgrounds had come in well and the work was beingput in hand at once. Mr Smith was empowered to have the drain in the Kaeaea schoolgronnd attended to: and it was also decided to draw the atttention of the Board of Education to the "•fact that for the preservation of the building the Kaeaea school required to be again painted. Accounts amounting to £1 lis 6d were passed for payment. KIEKIE ROAD. The recent rains, although needed to thoroughly fill the subterranean re servoirs that there may be a supply for summer, have had the usual effect on the clay roads, and with traffic they have now become well nigh impassable even to an empty vehicle, or very light load. The road from Aria to Pio Pio is at present in that state that a horseman cannot get out of a walk except occasionally when he can dodge for a short distance on a side track. The Kumara road in places is almost impassable to grown cattle. The Kiekie road has suffered badly in another way. When you proceed along it about three and a half miles from Aria, you come along a rich belt of excellent bush country. Eachsids of the road for the most part the bush has been felled and burnt giving abundance of feed on the fiats. The formation to this country is papa, and as is too often the case when the roots of the trees have rotted that which has ■bound the surface soil together has gone, resulting in serious slips here and there. This has happened to part of the road, and about three chains of it have slipped bodily some six or eight feet. The road is now closed to traffic, and those using it do so at their own risk. This, however, is Very inconvenient to settlers and they manage now by making a very awkward detour through Mr R. H. MacKenize's property. For the good of » great number it is to b& hoped those whose duty it is will have things speedily remedied. DAIRYING. All the dairy farmers are again busily preparing for the season whose advent is now so close at hand. Most have already got quite a respectable number of cows in in answer to the announcement made by the directors of the Aria dairy factory twelve months ago that the factory would open on' September Ist. Special paddocks were locke J up in the autumn, on to which not a hoof roamed in the intervening time, with the result * that there is now quite a good growth of grass which the moist warm weather of the past fortnight has encouraged greatly. The additions to the factory have been almost completed and everbyody is looking forward to another successful yesr. A cheese factory, too, is about to open but of that you will hear more in the near future.