HAURAKI PLAINS NOTES

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 798, 19 October 1929, Page 5

HAURAKI PLAINS NOTES

The metalling of the Lower Main Road. Patetonga, -which, is part of t’ e second year’s programme for metalling all the roads in the riding, commenced on Wednesday, when a start was made with the bottom course of metal. The quarry contractors hope to deliA'er over 100 yards daily and have installed a modern plant, including a powerful steam-engine, compressed air-drills and water-pumps for sluicing. The Lands Drainage Department has the work in hand and is prepared to recei\'o metal for a long distance ahead. The Kaihere Cricket Club is having a new pitch laid down on Mr. L. R. Mclndoe’s farm. It AA'ill be of concrete and the AA’ork is being done by voluntary labour. Opponents to the inclusion of the Waitakaruru and Pipiroa ridings in the Hauraki Plains abattoir area by the Hauraki Plains County Council intend carrying their objection to the Government. and a petition with that purpose is noAV in circulation in the district. A requisition asking the council to reconsider its decision, which AA*as receiA’ed at the last meeting, contained OA-er 90 signatures. Finality is being reached with the project, commenced many years ago, of proA’iding a memorial at Kaihere to the men from the Torehape-Kailiere-Patetonga district who gave tlieir lives in the Great War. The war memorial fund has been augmented by grants from the Kaihere Domain Board and the library committee, and A'arious odd sums of publicly oAvned money have been made aA’ailable. The memorial AA’ill be a building on the domain oA'erlooking the tennis courts to serve as a sports pa\ T ilion and public library, and AA'ill house a marble tablet recording the names of the soldiers aa’lio left the distinct.