TAURANGA NOTES

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 867, 10 January 1930, Page 13

TAURANGA NOTES

The Tauranga Borough Council met on Tuesday evening. The engineer was instructed to prepare plans and conditions for bitumenising a section of Devonport Road, with the view of raising a loan for the work. The Baths Committee reported it was having three schemes prepared to submit to the council at the next meeting. It was reported that the plans and specifications for the new electricity building were now ready and tenders would be called at once. The Citizens’ Committee wrote asking the council to appoint delegates to attend a conference of local bodies to consider establishing an aerial port at Tauranga. Crs. Whiting, Newsham and Ivory were appointed. The Tauranga Tobacco and Citrus Company’s offer to sell land was declined. * * * A troop of Boy Scouts from Matamata passed through Tauranga on their way to Motiti Island, where they are holding their annual camp. * * * The Tauranga Scouts are holding their camp on Mr. MacMillan’s farm at Katikati. They went into camp on Friday and were unfortunate enough to meet with the heavy rain last Saturday. However, Mr. MacMillan provided shelter, and since then everything has been ideal.

On Tuesday evening the firemen had their monthly run for the Randle Cup. It resulted: Fireman Hand, 1; Deputy-Superintendent Snowden, 2. The Simons Cup competition resulted in a tie between Firemen F. Bickers and C. Hand. The run-off between them won by F. Bickers.