DISTRICT NEWS

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 192, 18 July 1916, Page 3

DISTRICT NEWS

TUAKAU

If reports are correct the forthcoming Town Board election will be keeenly contested. The names of several prominent ratepayers have been mentioned as probable candidates, while at the request of ratepayers Mr W. Gubb has consented to effer himself for election. A good effect should follow llie surfaceman's operations in respect to the WBter channels in the Main Btreet, whore the mud that his blocked the passage of water theieiu for several inocth3 ij bung removed, thereby leaving a clear passage lor sutlace water to ptss away.

Consideration was given at a

special meeting of the Tuakau branch cf iha Farmers' Union, held on Saturday evening last, and presided over by th2 president, Mr W. Youcg, to the concert and social to be given under the branch's aus-

pices in aid of the Navv Func'. Committees consisting of Messrs L'. Fulton, W. Young and P. Lewis and Mesdames D. Fultun, W. Smeed, senr., and P. Lewis, respectively, were appointed to malte arranuements lor the concert and refreshments. If possible outside talent will be engaged for tbe musical portion of the programme. The erection of a new fence around the Methodist Church gives the building quite a finished appearance.

The Men'a Patriotic League are organising a social, to take the form of a progressive euchre and da r cp, th 3 proceeds trom which are to -go tiwarda purchasing more wool for members. The League has cuntrncted ti send to Auckland 25 hugsifs every fnur weeks, beginning st th? end ot the present month and finishing in December. A correspondent writes comparing of the neglect.d condition of a portion of tha Harrisville road footpath adjoining Mr P. Lewis' property. He suggests that the trouble ccull be overcome by diverting the water into the water channel with pipes. The General Manager ot Railways has informed the Town Board, by 1 ttcr, that the greatest amount the Department is prepared to give towards the cost of the provision of a bridge at the level crossing is £750, which means that the Board would hive to provide the remainder ef the cost of the bridge and the wh le of the approaches.

Messrs Dynes Fulton and H. B. Free returned home on Friday afternoun last after representing the Town Board in Wellington in connection with matters appertaining to the proposed overhead bridge. They also brought under the notice of the authorities the question of securing direct telegraph communication with Auckland and of the Government subsidising t\:e reconstruction of the White Bridge on River road and the grading of the approaches. . A special meeting of the l'own Board is to be held Ibis evening, when consideration will be given to the consulting engineer's (Mr J. Rou'ley) allocatiora for tho proposed work to be covered by the loan, whilst Messrs Fulton and Free will repo;t on their visit to Wellington. Tte la?e:t donations to the proposed Soldieis' Mcmo-ial Fund ircluda £1 each trora Messrs GH. Le2 and A. H. Tapper, and 10s from Mr A. 11. urigor, Pukekohe 1 Mr William Hewitt, who voluntarily en listed souti after Easter and cot, as recently reported in cur columns, as the result of. being canvassed by the local Recruiting Committee, pots hto camp next week as a member of the Nineteenth Reinforcement'.