OTOROHANGA.

Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17976, 22 March 1930, Page 10

OTOROHANGA.

NEWS OF THE DAY. Personal. Mr J. D. Anderson, Inspector of Stock, has received official notice of his transfer, on promotion, to the Wellington district. Mr Anderson will be succeeded by Mr W. G. Boner, of New Plymouth, in the Northern King Country territory. The well-known Otorohanga apiarist, Mr W. W. Nelson, will leave for a trip to England and the Continent, on Friday. The Rev. E. H. Kedgley, a Commissioner on the Otorohanga Town Board, has been appointed to St. Peter’s Presbyterian Church, Grey Lynn, and will leave for his new sphere of duties next month. The late host and hostess of the Commercial Hotel, Otorohanga, Mr and Mrs T. Casey, will leave the Dominion on the 28th inst., for Sydney, where they will tranship for the Homeland. Now Technical School. The new manual and technical school is fast nearing completion, and will probably be out of the contractors hands in a fortnight. New Foot Dal! Club. A combined football club, to embrace the Mangaorongo, Pnewhenua, and Rangiatea districts is about to be formed. “Get on the Land.’’ The appointment of an advisory committee, comprised of the Minister of Lands, the Commissioner of Crown Lands, Mr A. P. Grey, of Otorohanga, and Mr S. C. Macky, of Te Awamutu, has been made for the purpose of investigating and reporting on all vacant lands, Native and Crown, with a view to promoting their early settlement. County By-Election. An election will take place on April 8 for the purpose of electing one councillor to fill the vacancy on the Te Kuiti Riding, of the Waitomo County Council, caused by the resignation of Mr S. C. Pratt, who is leaving the Dominion.