RAGLAN NEWS.
(From Our Ov, n Correspondent.) BAG LAN. .Tune 7. A start, has been made to pull down the old building by the successful tenderer for ihe erection of the new Courthouse aud Police station. Now that the new valuation rolh are available, Ihe Council intend to take the necessary steps to raise the proposed loans In the TVhaingaroa and Karioi ridings. The rates will, of course, be reduced in proportion to the increased valuation. At a well-attended and representative meeting, held at Te Mata on Tuesday lasr, it was decided to form a minature rifle club. Mr. 11. T. Gibson, convoner, explained that Captain Norton (Raglan Mounted Rifles) had offered to provide Morns rubes and ammunition, provided that all rai-mbars become members or honorary members of the Raglan Mounted Rifle.-;, it was decided to accept the offer. A committee was appointed, consisting of Captain Norton, Sergeant Doira. Qnartermastor-Rergcant Saunders, Trooper Corns, and Messrs. A. Jerome. P. Watktns, and H. T. Gibson, secretary and treasurer. It was decided to await further information from the Defence League before commencing the erection of targets, etc.: also Co request the loan of rifles and targets for the use of a squad of schoolboys, who, under their teachers' guidance, will be taught the rudiments of shooting. The latest addition to the busiuess quarter of the town is a handsome and imposing i structure >n Bow-street which has Just been erected for Mr. Curtis by Mr. Haistnan. The bnilding has a 2Sft, frontage with a depth of 55ft.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 136, 8 June 1907, Page 6
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