WAIAU PA.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 183, 16 June 1916, Page 4

WAIAU PA.

Last week Mr It, J. Garland, chairman of the Board of Education, accompanied by Mr C. T. Barriball (Waiuku , the district's representative on the Board, visited Waiau Pa and attended a meeting of householders convened for the purpose of discussing the school site question. Mr Garland read the Inspector's report, which recommended the removal of the school building to the central site of the Public Hall. Messrs McLaren aud Griuter spoke in support of the removal and Messrs Jas. Clark and Gilford opposed. On a vote being taken to test the opinion of the meeting there was a large majority in favour of the new site The children are now being " housed '' for their studies in the Public Hail and it is thus assumed that the removal of the school, a3 supported at the meeting, has been definitely decided on by the Board.

Two well-known local residents have recently passed away, Mr J. J. Buhlcr's death in the Auckland Hospital being followed a few day's later by the decease of Mrs Buhler, the latter event taking place at her farm at Waiau.

The Karaka Board's two new bridges have brought the Waiau Pa in closer touch with the city and motor car partiej now frequently make the trip from and to Auckland and Waiau via the new route.

Suppliers are anxiously waiting for au indication from the N.Z. Dairy Association as to local arrangements for noxt season. Several new suppliers will be forthcoming although Mr H. Dell, by reason of his sou's intention to joiu the Expeditionary Force, is selling oil' his herd, which is one of the largest in the district.

The high state ol' cultivation of lauds at Waiau Pa always favourably impresses visitors and paddocks laid down many years since continue to furnish extensive feed aud good hay crops. A visitor from Auckland this week particularly spoke in terms of admiration of the qualitiss of the rivor Hat country, aud which he thought would be hard to beat anywhere.

From time to time paragraphs have appeared iu the " limes" drawing attention to the remarkable results obtained from the not long ago dispised Waiau land when well cultivated. Mr Gilford has about twenty acres of swedes this year which seem to prove that the fertility of the ground prevails even under adverse conditions, for they were grown after a single ploughing of the i'ern land, a condition of things which rarely leads to a good crop of turnips. Iu a season like the present when a good crop of swedes is the exception rather than the rule a yield like that showing in Mr Gilford's paddock is a valuable asset It is stated that there was no special of bone-dust and super-phosphate iu etjual parts, commonly used in the district, being responsible for the line display of roots.