HAURAKI PLAINS NOTES

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 776, 24 September 1929, Page 11

HAURAKI PLAINS NOTES

The small attendance at a meeting of the Xgatea Swimming Club on Thursday evening led to the executive officers discussing the advisability of winding up the club and the consequent question of disposing of the floating pontoon bath. It was decided to call another meeting fol* next Wednesday evening. It was suggested that if sufficient enthusiasm was not then shown, the Xgatea School Committee should be asked to take over the club’s plant. * ■* * * Over 10 chains of the east bank of thb Pinko River, near Horahia, has been laid back by the Hands Drainage Department’s new dredge with a 100 ft boom. This enormous machine is working satisfactorily. The last spring tide spread over the excavated area and gave an indication of the value of the work in making the waterway capable of carrying big floods. \ movement among settlers of the Xgatea - Wai taka ruru district to secure a rural mail delivery service has met with some opposition from settlers whose mail is received from the Waitakaruru post office on the score that the status of the office might bo affected. They admit that, on account of the shorter route and higher number of letter boxes a mile, there is more chanco of a service being obtained for the whole road from Xgatea than from Wai taka ru ru.