MANGAITI.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXII, Issue 42744, 6 July 1905, Page 2

MANGAITI.

(From our own Correspondent.)

Matters hero are much the same as usual, and tho neighbouring farmers are busily engaged getting ready for the spring. Grass is fairly plentiful and stock are looking very well considering the time of the year. It is expected there will be an increase in the number of suppliers to the local factory during the approaching season. fiha need of a connecting link between the two settlements in the shape of a bridge across the Waihou somewhat retards progress. For awhile we thought things were moving in the right direction, but a quietness appears to have set in. Our member, Mr Bowler, to succeed in getting this bridge, must take the advice often given by King Richard agitate ! agitate !! agitate!!! There is no use resting on your oars. The district warrants a bridge, and we must have it. Then there is the much required school. If the Board of Education does not do something definite shortly, some of the boys and girls will have grown big and old enough to go down to Auckland and worry the Board about the matter themselves. To think that this question is dragging on for so long is a downright disgrace to the Auckland Board of Education. At the present time there are between 35 and 40 children of school age. 1 understand Mr C. E. Mace has offered the Board the use of a cottage for school purposes, until such time as other arrangements are made. All that is required now is a capable teacher. I hear that the flaxmill is to be closed down shortly for the winter months. The working of the mill has provided constant employment for a number of hands for months past. The roads this winter are belter on the whole than they were this time last year, especially the Mangaiti Station road, which received a good coat of metal.