VISIT FROM CAMBRIDGE

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 408, 17 July 1928, Page 2

VISIT FROM CAMBRIDGE

About 40 members of the Cambria*, Orphans' Club paid a visit to the T« Awamutu Club on Saturday eveauif The chairman was Bro. A A. Ree„ past-president' Cambridge provided nearly the whd. of an excellent programme. The open ing items were given by the Te ratitu Club's orchestra. The visitor were very appreciative of the wefecZ. accorded them, and extended a heart, invitation to return the visit on Thurc day evening. MANUREWA TOWN BOARD The engineer of the Manurewa Tow, Board was instructed at a meeting of tlie board last evening to prepare ««' mates of file cost of a public swimming bath, to be built in the school eronnal in Hill Road. A poll is to be taken of the rate, payers of tlie district to sanction the water and swimming bath loan, on the same day as the board elections A letter was received from the Manurewa Rugby Football Club, sayiir that it cannot pay £5 toward the up. keep of Jeilicoe Park, as it has alreadr paid a like amount toward the im. provement of the ground. Mr. McCallum stressed the need for encouraging sport in the district, and said that in his opinion they were driving the sports bodies out of the district. It was decided to suggest to the dab that it apply to the Auckland Rugby Union for a subsidy toward the upkeep of the ground, and the board also decided to write to the Rugby Union direct, pointing out the recent improvements made to the ground, and asking for a donation next season. After a long discussion regarding spoil for filling at the overhead railwa/ bridge, on the Great South Road, it ww decided to accept an offer of Mr. Ferguson for the necessary spoil, free ol cost, providing the board makes good any damage incurred. The District Land Registrar advised, for the second time recently, that he was not the board’s legal adviser, and suggested the board should confer with its solicitor regarding"the boundary line of the town board district affecting Friedlander’s Road. The conditions of the lease of portion of the cemetery reserve to Mr. Davis was approved, and Mr. Davis was granted permission to remove any fences. The engineer was instructed to report on the cost of footpath on Brown’s Road, between Sturdee and Jeilicoe Roads.