WAIPIPI.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 3, Issue 202, 9 June 1914, Page 3

WAIPIPI.

THJ3 PROJECTED NEW HALL. The hall committee, has corr.e to light again. On the 23rd ult, the committee met, five out of rcven numbers being present, Mr J. A. Renall in the chair. The chairman brought up the question of the quarter acre site being too small for the accommodation of visitors' horses. After s-ime little discussion oi the subject the chairman offered Mr Cmtty a price for one acre for the hall site, the price being £lO. MrCrotty accepted the same and Mr Renall was accorded a hearty vote of thanks for his very generous gift to the hall trustee*. A rub-committee of three was elected to w«it upon the bank manager End gather other detail matters re plans and specification*. It was decided to call in the promised subscriptions for the hall, something like £IOO being on the books. The next meeting is to b3 held in Waiuku very shortly. WEATHER CONDITIONS. The weather conditions lately have been very bad, with fierce nor'-west winds and terrific squalls of rain. CHURCH AFFAIRS. Church matters are not going along as smoothly as they should. At a church committee meeting held a short time ago a bolt from the blue, as it were, fell upon the tommittee, by a couple of its members,) in the form of a resolution that the church fce built for the Church of England people only, excluding all other church services. The chairman, Rev. Mr Vaughan, was quite taken back, and said he thought everything was going on very nicely, and was surprised to think that the members did not move on those lines at the first public meeting of church-people. \ The chairman decided at once to call another public meeting to deal bueiners. Consequently a public meeting w"as held on the 26th ult. in the school, the Rev. Mr Vaughan being voted to the chair. After a short prayer, the chairman stated the reason of the meeting being called, and said a little difficulty had aris:n in connection with the church, but trusted the matter would be mode alright again.

Mr Ridgley was called on by the chairman, and made a statement to the effect that the ground and church should belong to them, the Church of England people, only. After some considerable delay the former resolution, that the church be a United church, was rescinded and in its place was put a new resolution that the church belong to the Church of England people. An amendment was put ti the meeting against the church being used for one denomination only, but the resolution was carried by a majority of four. A new committee was formed and a working bee was arranged to clear and plough the church ground, NEW SHIPPING SCHEME. A public meeting touk place on Monday evening last in the schoolroom, and was fairly well attended considering the very bad weather conditions, people coming from Kohe Kohe. The meeting was called by Mr R. E. Brownlee, owner of the launch "Mikado," running between Onehunga and Awhi'.u in the passenger and cargo trade. Mr Brownlee stated that the people of Awhitu were well pleased with his present running anangements, and if sufficient inducement were offered by the people of Waipipi and Kohe Kohe, he would put on a larger boat and be prepared to handle all cargo for them. After discussing the pros and cons of the question, it was decided that Mr Brownlee draw up an agreement, and present it to the settlers to sign for a two years' guarantee to support him in bis venture.