ODDS AND ENDS.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4389, 23 March 1909, Page 2

ODDS AND ENDS.

Date of Wiiili'u Athletic Sports is drawing near ; some of the local sprinters are already in training. it has been suggested that a local Marathon lakes place in connection with the Waihou Spoits —from Waihou to Te Aroha and back

The Wai'oa Drainage Board do not intend to let tl e gra«s grow under their feet. It is a question of Piako v. Waitoa rivers, the majority of the Board favour the Piako system.

Chairman Matthew Henry states that Mr Kreaknell strongly favours the Piako system. Mr Arch. Forrest finished his bridge oontract on Saturday last. r l ho widening of Curtain's Hill cutting is being pushed ahead by the Railway Department.

Our quartette were not successful in winning those Bowling Stars. They made a good fight for them. The photographs taken 1 Tally, displayed in the shop .windows, are much admired.

The Co - operative Bacon Factory m<eting at Wrihou on Friday evening fell somewhat flat. It is about time son.e additions were made to the Waihou railway station.

The Waiata suburb will in future be known as Ngarua. The Borough Council election is drawing near. It is time some of the aspirants announced themselves. Duck shooting was taking place in the vicinity of the Pah lagoon on Sunday afternoon. The season opens on Msy Ist.

Several farms in this district have changed hands during the past week.

Mr Pickmere, we understand, has been appointed statioumaster at Te Aroha. Mr Burrell leaves for his new sphere of labours at the end of the present month. Whitaker-street is much better since the loose stones were picked up. It could do with a little grading.

The electric light indulged in some of its pranks on Saturday evening about 9.40. Total darkness reigned on two occasions for a few seconds.

The Waitoa Drainage Board meets at the Secretary’s house, Waitoa, on the second Wednesday in each month.

It is about time the Borough of Te Aroha considered the advisability of voting the Mayor a small honorarium. Some of the Councillors should bring this matter forward. The Directors of the Te Aroha Cooperative Dairy Cmpany, considering the amount of time and work they put in are the poorest paid Directorate in the Dominion.