PROVINCE AND SUBURB

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 460, 15 September 1928, Page 5

PROVINCE AND SUBURB

WHANGAREI NEWS "Whangarei is a fast-growin.fr town and if we are going to build we must build ahead of time,” said Cr. McDonald at the County Council meeting yesterday morning. The subject under discussion was the rebuilding of the present county offices. Other councillors considered the present site on the main street too valuable lor housing administrative offices, and advised using them for commercial purposes and the erection of new county chambers on property already acquired in Vine Street, which was less valuable, but very little further away. This would require a loan of £9,500, and when it was submitted to ratepayers in 1926 it was turned down by a narrow margin. The council decided to prepare a report, with a view to considering at the next meeting the revival of the proposals. At the request of the Waitemata County Council it was decided to cooperate in protesting against the attitude of the Auckland Automobile Association and the Main Highways Board in reference to the allocation of the petrol tax on roads adjacent to Auckland, it being clear that the bulk of the money was to be applied to the reconstruction of the full length of the Auckland-Hamilton road. A. letter from the Waitemata County stated that the meaning of the word “adjacent’’ had been stretched to breakingpoint, when it could be applied to a road leading to a centre 80 miles from the city. No. 1 Highways Council had already protested, contending that the word “adjacent” referred to roads within a radius of 20 miles.

FRANKLIN TENNIS CLUBS At the annual meeting of the Patumahoe Lawn Tennis Club there was a large attendance of members. Officers elected were:—Patrons, Messrs. E. D. McLennan, M.P.; R. S. Brown and A. Parris; president, Mr. C. Goldsworthy; vice-presidents, Mr. A. C. Baigent and Mrs. A. Parris; secretary, Mr. J. Membery; auditor, Mr. W. E. Johns; executive, Messrs. L. Syme, R. Brady, Mrs. Bathurst, Mrs. Reynolds and Miss Urquhart; Grounds Committee, Messrs. R. Brady, K. Syme, E. Turner, J. Brady and B. Johns; Social Committee, Misses Urquhart, Johns and Mr. K. Syme; Finance Committee, Messr. G-ols-worthy, Johns and Membery. * * * The president, Mr. A. Sehlaepfer, presided at the annual meeting of St. James’s Lawn Tennis Club, Pukekohe. The report stated that the club’s courts had been asphalted during the year, and were now in first-class order. Officers elected were:—Patron, the Rev. S. Nixon; president, Mr. A. Sehlaepfer; vice-presidents, Messrs. G. R. Wright and R. Sehlaepfer; secretary, Miss A. Scott; auditor, Mr. 3D. R. Hamilton; executive, Misses N. Perkins, M. Smith, Mrs. S. Fitness, Messrs. J. Adams, G. Perry, R. Perkins and G. A. Wright; club captain, Mr. A. Fausett; vice-captain, Mr. A. C. Gill, junr.; delegates to the Franklin Lawn Tennis Association, Messrs. R. Perkins and G. Wright. f PAEROA NOTES The monthly meeting of the Paeroa Borough was held on Thursday, the Mayor, Mr. W. Marshall, presiding. During the past month the revenue in the district fund account amounted to £6BO 6s Id, and the expenditure £1,039 15s 4d. After payments recommended, the credit balance, including advances made to the various loan accounts, will be £309 8s 2d. The town-planning movement was advanced when a civic survey map of the town, showing the proposed classification of the various areas and streets, was approved. A short time ago an inspection of the Paeroa borough septic tank proved that the installation was unsatisfactory.

The Mayor, Mr. W. Marshall, reported he had had the tank cleared out at a cost of £IOO, and his action was confirmed.

MORRINSVILLE TOPICS The Morrinsville Borough Council on Thursday considered a request from the Huntly Town Board for the loan of the borough engineer, Mr. R. C. Branch, for five days a week to superintend a bituminous work to be carried out on the Great South Road at Huntly. The question was deferred pending a report from Mr. Branch as to work contemplated in the borough. At a general meeting of the South Auckland Swimming Centre, held in Morrinsville this week, a letter was received stating that a club had been formed in Paeroa and proposed holding carnivals. It was decided to propose to the annual meeting that some recognition be made of the services of Messrs. E. Hall and D. Parr in the interests of swimming in South Auckland. The venue of the annual meeting was fixed for either Cambridge or Hamilton. Consequent on the raising of the grade of the Tahuroa School, a sole senior teacher has been made necessary. From 17 applications, Mr. C. J. Walsh has been recommended by the School Committee. Mr. H. Thompson, who has been in charge of the school for two years, has been appointed to a school at Whakatane.

TAURANGA INTERESTS At a meeting of the Tauranga Harbour Board, Messrs. Sanford, Ltd., were granted permission to erect a jetty at their fish works, providing the Marine Department did not object. The sum of £2 2s was voted to the Mount Maunganui Progressive Association toward the fund being raised for dressing sheds at the Mount. The application of Mr. C. T. Prosser to be allowed to have a training track along the Waikaraeo Bench was refused. * * * The secretary of the Chamber of Commerce is in receipt of a letter from the Railway Department stating that it is the intention of the department to erect a station building at Otumoetai. ** * • At a meeting of the District School Committee the secretary reported having received the sum of £l4 from the Rugby Union. It was decided to add it to the school sports fund. The Minister of Education is to be urged to provide for the building of three new rooms at the school. It was reported that the school ball realised a net sum of £47 13s. * * * The Borough Council issued permits f>r building in the borough last month the value of £6.013. A small presentation was made to Air. H. Rosoman, of the Drury railway rtaff, by his friends and fellow-work-ss at Drury, on the occasion of his i:\nsfer to New Plymouth. Speeches nvere made showing the esteem in Which Mr. Rosoman was held.

The better hat at Bert Marshall’s, The Hat King.’*