HAURAKI PLAINS NOTES

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 852, 21 December 1929, Page 6

HAURAKI PLAINS NOTES

The Kerepeehi Sports Association has received a report from the committee appointed to interview the purchasers of the Hauraki Plains A. and P. Association's showground, stating that the rental required for the day of the sports on Easter Monday was £2O. The landowner was prepared to donate £5 to the sports if the offer was accepted. It was decided to accept the offer and to hold a general meeting next month to make arrangements for the annual event. * * * As the use of the Hauraki Plains A. and P. Association’s showground at Kerepeehi has been lost to the public, the residents of Kerepeehi are now interesting themselves in the question of a domain. In the early days a domain was set aside, but later it was sold by the Government for £6OO and another area was reserved. This land is a swamp and quite unsuitable for a domain and frequent representations have been made to the Government to revoke the reservation and substitute an area on the hillside. At one time

the Hon. A. D. McLeod, when Minister of Lands, promised to give the district value for value in land on the hillside. As the Government received £6OO cash for the first domain, it is now suggested that efforts be made to get land of that value. The matter will be the subject of a public meeting shortly. The agricultural problems in connection with the deteriorated grass lands of parts of the northern end of Hauraki Plains and with the Orongo settlement are receiving very serious attention from officers of the Agricultural Department. This week six officials of the Department accompanied Mr. Shepherd, resident investigator, over the experimental plots he has in hand and also conducted investigations of their own in the affected areas.

The resignations of the president and of the vice-president of the Kerepeehi branch of the New Zealand Labour Party were received at the monthly business meeting this week, as these members were leaving the district. Mr. D. Hill was appointed president, Mr*. W. Booth vice-president and Messrs. W. Tate and D Blythe to fill the vacancies on the executive.

The question of establishing a. branch library was further discussed, but no

finality was reached. A dMfet'tfjft method of collecting the voluntary tributions to the party’s fighting was adopted. A recommendation was mato editor of the “New Zealand that the journal be made mere tractive to farmers with a view teres ting them in the Labour na ment. , Although the establishment of a run mail delivery service for the PIP Waitakaruru district has been _au rised for some time, the service not yet commenced, because 1 settlers have not yet ordered tne ter boxes. -