OPUNAKE.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 July 1922, Page 7

OPUNAKE.

(From Our Own Correspondent.) At the S.M. Court on Monday, judgment was given for plaintiff in the following cases, by Mr. A. M. Mowlem, S.M.:—A. Richards v. Atu Ehi, £1 17s fid, costs 17s; A. E. Parkes v. A. Robertson, £ll 10s 6d, costs £2 14s 7d; Town Board v. Ripo Tautahi, £3 12s 6d, costs £1 12s fid; F. F. Barraclough v. H. Thompson, £5 8s 2d, costs £1 14s fid; L. J. Coad v. T. Parai, £1 12s 6d, costs 13s; Lyttle and Holmes v. F. W. Garrett, £2 7s fid, costs £1 10s 6d; L. J. Coad. v. F. W. Garrett, £1 7s 6d, costs 15s. Judgment orders were made as follows:—Te Mata Viheyards v. W. S. McLeod, £2; W. W. Martin v. Mrs. M. Peters, £lO, amounts to be paid by August 7. For riding and driving vehicles without lights, the following penalties were inflicted:—W. D. Parkes (motor cycle), £2, costs 7s; J. G. Macrae (dray), £l, costs 7s 6d; three Rahot-u Maoris (vehicles) were fined £1 each and cdsts; R. Newport (vehicle) £1 and 10s qosts; S. Neilson (push-bike), 10s and costs. Sanitary Cases.-—The Town Board cited Jas. Ritson for allowing a nuisance to exist on premises owned by him, and he was oidered to have the nuisance abated i within a fortnight. A. E. Brunnette, for failing to comply with the Court’s order in not having septic drains attended to, was fined £5 and Court costs 10s. A number of Ihaia Road settlers lodged objections to being included in the Ihaia Road special loan for tar-sealing. The objectors gave evidence. The case was adjourned. The Town Board’s action against local residents for having faulty drains from septic tanks and overflows from washhouse drains raises the question as to whether the local authority will have to promote a drainage scheme. Most residen'te think Opunake is a town with a future, and ti e completion of the hydro-electric works within nine months, and the early expectation of the town being linked up with the railways, imposes a duty on the local authority to improve the sanitary conditions of the town. Beautifying and lighting the town are important works, but the first necessity to encourage retired fanners and visitors to settle in our town is a proper sewerage system The unusual spectacle . of conveying dairy heifers in a motor lorry was seen in Opunake. Early on Monday morning, Mr. Parkes' big lorry, conveyed twelve heifers from here to Marton. The Opunake schoolboys played Te Kiri school, at Te Kiri, on Saturday, and won by 8 points to. 6. The Te Kiri boys had the best of the v forward play.