PAPAKURA.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 132, 14 January 1916, Page 3

PAPAKURA.

I t a meeting of the Papakura jol Committee, held on Monday ling, Kev. Madill, presiding, it decided to hold a school exion to one of Auckland's searesorte. The date chosen is Inesday, February 16th, and the nev will be made by train and ; Tbe School Committee's reit for a new shelter shed did receive favourable consideration the Education Board, which ied stating that it would not >rtake such work during the ency of the war. The basketcourt baa been tarred and led at the cost of £24. and tbe mittee sfcuuld be complimented i carrying this work out. pon tbe completion of tbe iora Park deviation much ssary work will be carried out be South road to the Papakura isbip boundary. Tbe ManuKau ity Council baa a grant of £3OO. this will be expended on seventychains ot road. It now behoves Papakura Town Board to put its i street in order, and a small for that purpose would not be is. t a meeting of the Papakura liog Club last week Mr Seaton elected secretary, vice Mr D W s, resigned. Ie Papakura Hotel has been vated throughout and the new intments are distinctly creditto the lessee, Mr SL Bv- ?. The new stables, not yet ileted, promise to be most up-to-in every respect, r McKeuzie, the stationmaster ipakura, commenced his annual ay yesterday. Be will visit ives at Dargaville, to which i Mrs McKenzie bad preceeded e erection of two brick shops to tbe store has been corned for Messrs Willis Bros. Sunday last there was a large ler of residents frequenting g'a. Beac'r, -sad a large percentwere bathing. Tbe need tor ing sheds was therefore ally noticeable, and it is safe 1 that this watering place would ne much more popular if this it received the attention of tbe i Board. These structures would ecessarily be expensive, but are inly necessary if mothers are ake their children to tbe one

Ibatbing place worth frequenting in Papakura. Of over twenty horaes offered to the Government buyer of remounts and artilllery horaeß on Wednesday only one was purchased. Tbe quadrupeds offered were of all sorts and sizes and did not appeal to the buyer, Mr Lyors. As usual, alter the sale there were many would-be sellers who knew better—or thought they did—what the Government

wanted than Mr Lyors. Among the latest recruits to be accepted for service is Mr Robert Dunn, of Papakura, who will go into camp with tha Thirteenth Reinforcements next month. Mr Dupn is at present in tbe employ of Messrs Willis Bros, and makes the eleventh employee or ex employee of that firm who bai enlisted. The others are: K Whitely, P Bullen, G Black, R MacK, K

lodd, B Fliotoff, J Smith, Scanlon, Cliffe Allington and Bob Jones. A meeting of the Patriotic League was held on Wednesday evening, when the treasurer reported that the payments to the Belgian Belief Fund were still being kept op to £9 per month. —ln response to an appeal by the Auckland Women's Patriotic League it was decided to

I supply 25 hussifs per month till June next.—Mr Holt reported that it was hoped to get on with the ploughing of Mrs Mitsom'B land, f ber son having returned to .the [ front, as soon as the harvesting was over. At present it was difficult to get labour.—The secretary was instructed to write to the Auckland War Relief Association to ascertain the committee's exact

position regarding any cases requiring assistance in the district. Having paid in about £609 to the fund members were of the opinion that the committee should have some direct say.in the disburement

of the same.—A letter was read from the Minister of Internal Affairs suggesting that a conference of Patriotic Leagues throughout the Dominion should be held in

February to devise some uniform scheme for rendering assistance to returned soldiers or their dependants and to obviate overlapping. It was decided to reply that the committee was in accord with the suggestion.—Members trusted that the payments to the Belgian Keilef Fund would not lag, as it was pointed out the need for help for the sufferers is as great now as it ever was, and the (act that they saved the position at the beginning ot the war should not be forgotten. The section of two acres situated in Pari; road, Papakura, has been withdrawn from the properties belonging to Mr Godwyn D Smith ' offered for sale, the same having bean leased tq, the Methodist Circuit. The remainder ot the pro-

perties, as advertised id tbis issue, a*Bre, however, Bt.il! available for f bujets. ♦