PAPAKURA.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 195, 28 July 1916, Page 3

PAPAKURA.

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The currency of infectious disease in the distiict ecgaged the attention of the School Committea on Mordiy evening hst, and it was resolved to rrquest the Public Health Department to fumigate the school and the Education Board to notify the committee, as well as the rchoclmaster, of cess in the district. As the result of the communication ssnt them, the Health Department have consented to fumigate the school conditional on the committee defraying the cost, but the committee considered it is tor the Education Board to atterd to the matter. The advisability of instituting a mor2 reguhr sanitary service was also cinsidered by the School Committee, but members ngre?d tbat the best possible was be'.ng done with tbe small funds available.

It Hbs been suggested that the disrtict's central position, ia relation to the cream that ia conveyed from surrounding districts to the Papakura railway station tor transit elsewhtre, lends iis.lf admirably for the erection ot either a butter or cheese fac'ory. Although a considerable quantity ot cream which in the past wes forwarded to the New Zealard Dui'V Association's Pukekohe butter factory i? now being dealt with at the Clevedon butter factory, the cream yassmg •through Papakura from Karaka, via the nen bridges, quite sustains the amount prveiously handled at ths Btatior. io the flush of the seascn an average ot about GO 20-gallcn cars of cream are dealt with daily by the railway stall'. The Town Board's ntwiy-appointed surfaceman, Mr J. Burge-s, ia a patient in the Auckland Public Hospital, where he is being treated for goitre. Shortly after commencement of play in the senior rugby match, Grammar School Did Boys A v. Porsonby, in Auckland on Saturday last, Mr Harold Woods', sjn of the Kev. VV. I'. Woods, who was playiug Ins lirst game in senior competition, was injured and had to leave the field. He was assisted to the trair, and home, uy his mates where he is uow being treated by Ur Brockheld for injuries to ths kidneys.