COUNTY COUNCIL VACANCY

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 7, Issue 396, 30 July 1918, Page 2

COUNTY COUNCIL VACANCY

TO THE EDITOR Sir,—Owing to the resignation of our Riding member, Mr 0 A Hille, who has sold his property and left the district, we are called upon to look around and try and find a worthy successor to him to represent us on the Fianklin County Council. The task is by no means an easy one. Mr Hille has 86t the standard high as a settler, a patriot and a public man. As the Pokeno districts rapidly coming iuto popular favour owing to its being in close proximity to the city of Auckland and only a few miles from the flourishing towns of Pukekohe and Tuakeu, where farms are changing hands at over £IOO per acre, we are not surprised to find that some prospective buyers are turning their attention to the Pokeno distiict, several farms having changed hands during the present month at considerable less than £IOO per acre. Values are bouud to rise in this flourishing dairying and farming distiict as there are every month large mobs of fat stock driven through the Valley. They say our township is not much yet but i f is to be the junction of the Pokeno-Paeroa branch railway that is coming soon. Then you will see how the town and district will boom by leaps and bounds. Settlers with larger families are coming into the district to reside : consequently the necessity of greater educational facilities are already being urged upon the Education Board. Seeing that our district is so full of promise in ninny ways we think it is time that a public

meeting was railed for the purpose of selecting a liv® up-to-date Councillor who could make himself heard and felt a ; all public functions anions th« Councils of the Nation- a man «#- lected by the people to uphold aa|'< urge the requirsments of the from time to time. Hop ng that efQin* of our public-spirited men in the diitriot will take the mattor up and call a public meeting at an early date.—l am, etc., PROGRESS. Pokeno.