PROPOSED TOWN BOARD.

Putaruru Press, Volume IV, Issue 120, 11 February 1926, Page 5

PROPOSED TOWN BOARD.

LOCAL PETITION COMPLETE | Forwarded This Week. | The sub-committee appointed by ratepayers to prepare and fc 1 ward a petition to the Governor-General praying that authority to form a Putaruru Town Board, to control local affairs, be granted, completed its work this week, when the document was forwarded to Wellington. I The petition sets forth the particulars of the new area as follows: | 1. That the lands hereinafter described do not exceed in area two Square miles, and that no one point in She area is distant more than four ' miles from any other point. | 2. That the petitioners number more than two-thirds of the total number rfpf householders in the lands hefein™Bfter described. j 3. That the area comprises all that Jl Brea known as the township of Puta- ” ruru (Selwyn Village) in the'County of Matamata, being bounded as follows: Commencing at a point where She Maori pall road crosses the Oraka river, the southern boundary encloses She Domain and from there follows a Straight line to the Western boundary of Mr. Yandle’s property; thence by the back Lichfield road up to the Arapuni road. Turning at right angles the line strikes the road reserve

through Mr. Bent’s property. Prom this point, approximately ten chains JLon the Arapuni side of the Memorial it follows the road reserve to Mr. Bent’s hack boundary. Prom thence it follows along the back boundary of this property to within ten chains of the Overdale road. Here the line cuts across the corner of Mr. Yandle’s property, and over the railway line through Mr. Alcorn’s block; to Mr. H. J. W. Scott’s boundary, and frrm there straight across to the Oraka river. The line then follows the river to the commencing point on the Maori pah-road. In the petition, only the number of the sections are given.

1 For the purpose of the act the comfmittee have estimated the population as being 501, and the number of houseI, holders at 126. Of these latter total 89 have signed the petition, thus complying with the' necessary requirements in two-thirds of the householders in the district described.