Manukau.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 7 May 1891, Page 2

Manukau.

• (FROM OUft OWN qOBBBS^ONPfNT.) A meeting was heldsomeifim.6 ago re fixing a site for a cemetery.' The County Council have fixed upon a site which some of the settlers are very strongly opposed to. The Councillors therefore met the settlers as stated when the. matter was threshed out.pret ( ty thoroughly. The irieeting was at times fnciiriect 'to -He lively but ended in the appointment of a Committee to 'select a site; I ;,:!! The annual meeting^ of householders was held in the- scEoolrooin on Monday night, there were some thirty five or forty persons present, and considerable interest was t&ken in the proceeding, vv There were eight persons nominated. Before proceeding to the election the retiring chairman read a report of the proceedings during the year. The report stated that the work of the year had been most satisfactory both as regards the school work itself and the improvement in the grounds etc. The following were then duly elected : — Messrs E. ' Whiley, -W. Tompsitt, A! Carkeek, G. Bevan, G. Bartlett, H. Saint, C. Houghton. Mr Carkeek was elected chairman of the' new Committee. The annual examination of the school takes place on the 12th and ISinst, nearly two months .earlier than usual, which will to some:; extent damage the results. :, I There is a great aijjbunt of spculation as to whether both the 'hbtels will obtain licenses, ' t&f ' 'general opinion being that one is quite sumoieat. : - A very old specimen of the Maori race died here last Sunday Mr Bevan who has taken care" of lrar^or the last 15 or sixteen years, ata'tes that her age must have been over a century as he has known, her for over forty years and she' was ' an old woman when he first saw her!