WAITARA.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 March 1920, Page 3

WAITARA.

HARBOR BOARD. (From Our Own Correspondent.) March 13. The monthly meeting of the Board was held on Friday. Present: Messrs J. Hine, (chairman), I'. J. Allen, H. Spurdla, and W. Nosworthy. Correspondence was received:— From the Whangarei Harbor Board, asking if the wharf was under railway control. —To be informed in the negative. From Roy and Nicholson (the Board's solicitors) re Club Hotel surrender of lease and renewal of lease; also for consent to a mortgage on other property.— Granted. The secretary reported that the small pontoon made for the board for executing repairs to the wharf had been found adrift by Messrs. Borthwick's barge bands, and had been tied to one of the barges. It had subsequently been used in repairing their barges, but during the last flood had broken away and gone out to sea. After a good deal of discussion .is to who was responsible for the loss, the matter was left over for further enquiries.

The necessary repairs to the shed wcr authorised.

The secretary reported th>f rhe old balance of rent owing by Buclianan and Richards was still unpaid, uie lease haying terminated in .June, IWlß.—The secretary was instructed to write re same.

GENERAL. Mr. Adiunson, who lias been in business in Waitara for a number of years as dyer and dry cleaner, is leaving for Queensland, to take an important position with the Queensland Woollen Manufacturing Company, offered to him by cable. Mr. li. Laingman, who served his time as an assistant at the power house, has been appointed, out of twenty applicants,

assistant engineer at the electrical power house at Picton. Mr. F. Butler, first assistant at the Waitara School, is leaving to take charge of the Ilniroa School. The- parents of scholars here will be sorry he is going. He was a good teacher, and much liked by the children.