KIHIKIHI.

Waikato Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1442, 29 September 1881, Page 3

KIHIKIHI.

KlHiKini is fltarting for its spring work gj improvements with all the energy with which its surrounding trees and blossoms are commencing theirs, and amongst ita good works the new Public Hall that I mentioned before as having started is deserving of notice again. The tender of Messrs Mandeno and Blincow for £295 for the erection has been accepted, the ground has been cleared and the work will be proceedsd with at once. The handsome little Church of England building, designed and built by MiArchibald Miller, is approaching completion, and will be finished off in about a fortnight more. Its measurement inside is 48 feet x 19, and it will hold about 90 people, which number will hardly require accommodation just yet, though should the population expand, the building is so propoitioned that it can expand with it and admit of 30ft more addition to the length without spoiling the outline. The tender was for £198. The timber, consisting largely of rnnu, was bupplicd by Messrs Beiry, Gardiner and Neill. There w<is a meeting of the Kihikihi Town Board on Saturday evening, and the work of cutting' down the hill in Galloway-street was agrreed upon, as it was felt that it is an indispensable woik for the passage of the traffic. The tender of Mr Richard Buckworth, for £12 18s for tho job, was accepted. GrePt complaints arc made of the stafe of the swamp road fiom Kihikihi to Cambridge, la some places it is «aid to be highly dangerous, with holes of three feet in depth, in which a hor^e will sink in mud to his haunches, and it must be owned that Kihikihi' s other subject of complaint, namely, the old worn out and utterly inconvenient Post-office is a perfectly jubtifiable one. Thero is only room for about three people at a time in the office, and in wet weather, or on the ai rival of an expected mail, a Jarge number of the public, for who«e convenience it is supposed to provide, are obliged to wait outside. It is one satisfaction, Chough a melnnch >ly one for the devoted official compr lie 1 to attend to it, that in the common course of things it cannot avoid falling down before very long, and then, perhnps it may strike home one that it is almost, time for a new one. — (Correspondent, September 28th.)