TUAKAU.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 213, 29 September 1916, Page 4

TUAKAU.

By an offer made by Mr Ted Muir, of Onewhero, the Tuakau Patriotic Society has benefi ted by £5. The conditions were that ia the event of the proposed £12,000 loan being carried he would duly hand the money over. This ho has since done Mr J. Boddie, e\-mayor of To Kui'i, passed through Tuakau on Friday last. It wil be remembered that he was r cenlly elec'ed to the Auckland Educat'on Board and it was as a representative thereof tha*. he inspected the Educati >n Reserve at Pukekuwa, with a view of placing a value thereon 1 ei'ove it is finally disposed of. Referring to the Tuakau South School Committee's desire to have the school enlarged, Mr Boddie said it was a difficult problem as if would bo impossible owiug to the Act to erect another school between the Tuakau South and Harrisville Schools as they were within a three mile radius. The question for the B >ard to consider was whether it would be advisable to enlarge both or have a central school. Consequently he had obtained local knowledge to judge of the merits of both propositions. Asked for his impressions of Tuakau Mr Boddie said that it was a nice I district with tremendous prospects and with the expenditure of the loan it had a bright future. After having spent 20 years in the most progressive province in New Z;aland—Taramki—and noticing the progress of those inland towns he could see that the towns oil the Main Trunk line were coming into their own at last. As one who has been closely connected with the dairying industry since its inception and having had the opportunity during the past twenty years of seeing the development of the country where the industry had been established he had no doubt but that Tuakau and its surrounding districts were eminently suitable for the industry and it would have a very telling effect therem. He instanced the proposed butter factory, which would be a decided asset to the district and said that he had seen in that day's journey about Tuakau, sufficient land of exceptional value to support two or three dairy factories.