Province and Suburb

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 611, 13 March 1929, Page 2

Province and Suburb

KING COUNTRY NEWS RETICULATION WORK. At a special general meeting of the Ohura Tennis Club Kir. D. KlcKay was appointed club captain, and Dr. It. B. Turnbull vice-captain. These gentlemen will have charge of affairs on club days at the courts. The club has resolved that, as the first charge against its funds, the loan for the courts be repaid at the rate of «£23 per annum. It was decided that in future no club funds be used to defray travelling expenses. The Manunui Town Board has appointed a sub-committee, consisting of the chairman, Kir. F. M. Carroll, and Commissioners Pearson, Klaud and Beautrais, to deal with electrical matters, the work of reticulating the town district being now under way. The contractors, Messrs. Turnbull and Jones, advised that a shipment of hardwood poles due to the board had been washed away and lost by the recent floods in Australia, but that it had been possible to make other arrangements.

Reporting on the month's work, the Highways Board states that a considerable amount of new work has been undertaken in the King Country. This includes lengthy portions of the Te Kuiti-Bulls via Taumarunui Main Highway, which is now approaching the day when it can be regarded as an all-w*eather route for motorists. Already a regular taxi service has been started between Te Kuiti and Taumarunui, and the road is reported as being quite good for the time of the year, though necessarily a tit rough in parts. At the monthly meeting of the Taumarunui Chamber of Commerce Messrs. C. A. Boles and A. J. Langmuir were appointed to represent that body on the executive of the Shopping Week movement. It was resolved to support the proposed repeal of sub-section 2 of section 64 of The Rural Intermediate Credit Act, which at present empowers any company to guarantee repayment of loans granted under the Act. The chamber is calling a meeting of deferred licence landholders to discuss the question of freeholding values in the town, which have been proved as ruling too high. WAIUKU TOWN BOARD The Waiuku Town Board met on Monday night, the chairman, Mr. J. J. A. James, presiding. Mr. C. Buttimore reported that he and the chairman had met the Main Highways Board at Pukekohe and had asked that Queen Street from the National Bank to the boundary should be made a main highway. Mr. Ward reported that he had let the contract for the repairing of the concrete retaining wall at the landspit to Mr. Farrelly, who was also doing the painting of the dressing-sheds.

The Valuation Department wrote asking that in view of an assessment court being required, an assessor should be appointed by the board. Mr. A. M. Barriball was appointed assessor subject to his agreeing to act. A plan of a subdivision of Kirs. C. Rossiter’s property was submitted for approval, but as the area of the section was not in accordance with the by-law the plan was referred back to the solicitors.

It was resolved to roll Campbell, Kaiwaka and View Roads, also France Street and a portion of Victoria Avenue and such other roads the works committee considered necessary, the same to be blinded with pumice sand. The board decided to begin the dressing on Kitchener Road as soon as the necessary material was on hand.

The 3rd Auckland Mounted Rifles were granted permission to hold their camp on the Recreation Reserve and to make a charge on .the day of the sports, subject to the grounds being left in good order. Five tenders were received, namely: \ G. Pi'ice, Ltd.. £482; Morton, Rush and Griffiths, £577 10s: .T. M. Malcolm, £612 4s Pd; A. and T. Burt. £657: and Warren Engineering Co., £657 10s, for the supply and erection of the pumping plant for the water supply and same were referred to th" engineer for consideration.

(From THE SUN’S Correspondents.)

NEWS FROM WAIPA COUNTY COUNCIL MEETS In a letter to the AVaipa County Council, the Tauranga County Coum asks for support of the following views: ’That the main highways should be maintained solely by mean of the petrol tax now collected by tl, S Government; that the tax should re lieve the burden of main roads main" tenance and permit some expenditure on by-roads; that a pro rata allocator of the petrol tax based on main road mileage and distributed among th , local authorities lor expenditure main roads throughout the Dominic? was considered more equitable than (hut w hich obtained at present ’* The chairman, Mr. S. C. Macky, said he was in favour of construction and maintenance of main highways bein? paid out of the petrol tax and licen‘» lees. c

Cr. Heacocke moved that the Tau. l-anga proposal be supported in prinl ciple. This was seconded by Cr Clarke and carried.

Tho decision of the Main Highways Board in declining to give more thin L 3 for ill as a subsidy for the sur facing of the Hamilton-Ngaruawahi. section of the Great South Road was discussed.

The engineer gave the following fig. ures as to present maintenance costs and the cost on the basis of a subsidy of £4 for £l, and £3 for £i. At the £4 for £1 basis the council would have to pay a little more than at pres, ent. At a cost of £225 a mile the council now contributed £75. A loan to spend £ 4,000 a mile for permanent work would cost £BO for interest Added to this was a third of £BO i mile for maintenance, and this gave KVaipa’s annual cost a mile of £lO6 13s 4d. If the subsidy was £4 for £l. Waipa’s figures would be £64 and £26 13s 4d more than the present maintenance cost.

Tho action of the chairman in declining tho Highways Board’s offer of £3 for £1 was approved.

Mr. T. Lawry presided at the annual meeting of the Korakonui Fooiball Club on Saturday evening. It was decided that a senior and junior team be entered in the competition for tho coming season. For seniors the subscription will be 5s and for juniors 2s 6d, and club colours will be the same as last year. The following officers were elected: Patron, Mr. G. Broadfoot, M.P.: president, Mr. J. Kay; vice-presidents, Messrs. C. McDonald. N. KI. Lethbridge. T. Lawry. J. Thomson. TV. Thomson. W. Orr, H. Moyle, C. McLean and J. Spraggs; secretary, Mr. J. Lawry; general committee. Messrs. J. Thomson. L. Kay, F. Hogan, W. Orr. J. Kay and both captains. • • •

The following list of officers were elected for the Kihikihi Football Club; Patron, Mr. W. J. Broadfoot, M.P.; president, Mr. E. James; vice-presi-dents, Messrs J. Dunleavy, W. Stewart, G. Osborne, V. Fitzpatrick, G. Maunder. H. Shaw. W. F. Lees. A. Kay, L. Eyre, J. Quinlan, G. Wilson, D. Ashby. J. G. Wynyard. J. J. Anderson: committee, Messrs E. James, T. Brown. TI. Jamieson. K. Quinlan, J. Froggart and G. Maunder; delegate to KV’aipa Rugb} Union, Mr. J. Harris. MORRINSVILLE AFFAIRS To date the Morrlnsville Dairy Coro ; pany’s output shows an increase of per cent, over last season. The total amount of butter manufactured is Sk< tons, as against 725 tons last season. The output for February was 11- ton ‘- compared with 62 tons for February. 1928.

Following a discussion in committee, the *Morrinsville branch of the > e * Zealand Farmers’ Union has to give its unanimous support to tne Auckland Provincial Executive in ltattitude toward the increased killings which are being carried out at * Westfield Freezing Works. It was explained that the attitude of the executive was that they were opposed to tn granting of any further killing faculties to these works. * * • Overcrowding is still a complaint ® most schools in the Morrinsville a • trict. The latest to claim notice is * Mangateparu, where the roll nuin is 79. Of these pupils 43 have to oe crammed into one room and in r ] a gs lessons it is necessary to hold a C 1 in a porch. . ... The Hon. H. Atmore, Minister"* Education, has advised Kir. * • . ’ M.P., that he will pay a day a visa j Morrinsville and will go into the JP i ter of additions to J-lie Te Hoe sch At the annual meeting of the Unite** Rugby Football Club the balance sur showed a credit of £3 16s nr . officers were elected as follow: I atr ‘.'J Klessrs. R. C. Allen and J. Ford; prudent, Mr. F. Cowan: secretary, Mr. *• H. Haycock; auditor. Kir. L. C. un - man; senior selector, Mr. 1* • Cow • junior selector, Mr. C. Taylor, gates to Morrinsville Rugby L Messrs. W. Dench. F. Cowan ana Allen; committee, Klessrs. A. ‘ v shall. H. Richards, F. Jack, J- v .°- M J. Park and C. Peebles; coach. - 1 F. Cowan.

* * * Morrinsville and Paeroa niet in , cricket match for the Bowler *- a Morrinsville (the holders) ‘Winn one-innings match by IS4 to 'T; * Morrinsville Jones 62 and Kerr o*> top scorers. Verran 46. Wright 12, Howard 15, Dare 14 * Dale 27 were the highest scorer* the losers. 0 The points prizes in connection . the Morrinsville Horticultural annual show* were awarded af* r . Vegetables. Kir. W Vowles. M. Gray; farm produce, Mr. k . ton; cut flowers, Miss Kl. A,l t n ’ ra fif. plants. Miss Scales; arts Kliss M. Sw’eetapple; d . ecor . Vnnnec' Allen. The public voting * n -_. e retion with the best decorated t eisulted in favour of Mrs. F. Li . nls hibit. A silver cup for the m 5 \s'. gained by amateurs was won o> Vowles, Piako.