HARAPEPE.

Waikato Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1419, 6 August 1881, Page 2

HARAPEPE.

♦ The annual meeting of the ratepayers of this district was held in the bchooJ-house on Saturday last. The meeting was called for 2 p.m., but the interest taken in Road Board matters not being very intense, it was a great deal Inter than that before a sufficient number attended to form a meeting ; the whole muster amounting to twelve. After the accounts were read, some discussion ensued as to the work done, and also in reference to leaving such work as road forming and cuttings to be done in winter, the consequence being that roads are almost impassable all the winter. The above fault I have noticed seems to be a weakness that almost all country Road Boards are subject to, how it is I do not pretend to explain, it seems to come under the head of Lord Dundreary's explanation as being one of those things that no fellah can make out. However, the accounts were finally passed. As the road work begun by the late Board was still in an untinished state, the meeting considered it better for the old Board to go in again for another innings and try if they cannot improve by experience, and the following ratepayers compose the Board: — Messrs. James Sherret, J. Hodgson, W. Jordan, E. G. McMinn, and Jamen McGuirk. Auditors : Messrs. A. S. Sherret and D. Rolls. Fencoriewer: Henry Southie. After the Board meeting, the subject of the opening of the Te Rori bridge was discussed, and it was decided to call a public meeting atTe Bore for the purpose of forming a committee, and to have a public celebration of the openingof the bridge, the same to consist of a dinner I presume, and to wind up with the inevitable dance that the colonial public are so fond of. v Last week we had a visit from the Rev. Mr Phillips on his quarterly visit to Raglan. We have been getting some very 6harp frosts of late, but on the whole the weather is all that can be desired for all farm work. —(Own Correspondent, August 4th. J

Value of Re- Vaccination. — A correspondent in one of the Sydney papers writes :—": — " To show the value of re-vac-cination, is not the following convincing ? At the London Small-pox Hospital all the servants and nurses in actual contact with the patients have, for the last 30 years, been re-vaccinated. None have contracted the fell disease. A few years ago a number of workmen ,were engaged about the Hospital. All were revaccinated but two. These" two fell victims to small-pox, and one died."