WAITARA NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 85, 19 July 1910, Page 7

WAITARA NEWS.

ri (From Our Own Correspondents.) 'The Waitara Municipal Band held a \' very successful concert and dance on Friday evening. j, ( Mr. W. F. Jenkins last Saturday of- g] fered for auction, on behalf of the a ■ Harbor Board, a section on the river i-g bank with a frontage of 165 feet on .'the renewable lease system, the pur- tl ' : chaser being Messrs. A. H. Hatrick and a , •|Co., of Wanganui, who intend to : diately erect a wholesale store on the'tj | site. The price obtained was at the j . rate of 10s per foot per annum. The.K . firm's architect is expected up to-night ' ti ' to measure the site with a view to! preparing plans, and the Harbor Board m will lose no time in calling for tenders w for a hundred feet wharf extension. toi The s.s. Orari completed her loading, l and sailed on Sunday night. Outward fc cargo from Waitara consisted of b493 Q qrs. beef, 1000 carcases mutton, 017 car- w cases pork, 65 pieces beef, 2285 pkgs. frozen small goods, ICS9 cases canned meats, 152 casks oleo, 02 casks tallow, 20 casks casings, 1 cask pelts, 100 sacks F horns, 176 sacks hides, 10 bales woo], and 1 bale hair. The next Home boat is due in about three weeks' time, wnen the balance of meat, etc., now in the works, consisting of some 10 barges, °I ■will be shipped. Killing operations fin- j> £ ished or. Saturday. . *-< The laying of the reticulation pipes ii; in connection with the water supply is practically completed on the west side S c of the river, and a start was made on " al the east last Saturday. The work of laying the pipes has progressed most satisfactorily, and the e~id of the g month should see it almost completed. At the headworks there is not a great . deal to do outside the pipe laying, the construction of the settling tank being well forward, whilst the intake work is , well in hand. Very little at the tunnel is now to be done, and when this is com- m , Dieted the laying of the pipes will be bejnm. | The Bowling Club are holding a euchre , narty this evening in the Foresters' ]?( Hall "" i The Borough Council have received a ; - rcply from the. Minister for Railways to the effe:t that he is making enquiries as to the desirability or otherwise .rf ha opening up Browne street, across the tii ''aihvay li'ie. Were this done it would be a boon to stock drivers, who are til now compelled to go round a consider- Al able distance to get to either the works th or the station. I or Application is being made by the bor-! ou"h for the issue of a title to several Wl sections that the Minister for Lands *' c ! granted as Library reserves. i Dl Two eases of scarlet fever, both in *° ] the one house, have been reported. I j Yesterday morning the Works Com-j* ■mittee of the Harbor Board met and ;* decided to extend the wharf an addi-1 ' J tional twenty feet than it was first pro-!

"osed, making the extension now 120 feet- Tl,e engineer has been instructed to call tenders at once.