COUNTRY NEWS.

Auckland Star, Volume XL, Issue 52, 2 March 1909, Page 3

COUNTRY NEWS.

I •_—- — I CAMBRIDGE. I (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) DOMAIN ROAD BOARD. ' CAMBRIDGE, Saturday. !' The annual meeting of this Board was '' held yesterday afternoon. Statement of : accounts for the year ended 31st December, : 1908, showed:—Receipts (which consisted , solely of rents), £439 14A: aud expenditure. £432 4/8. The assets showed a surplus 1 over liabilities oZ £53 6/11- The rent aci counts are nov in good order, with about two exceptiors, and in one case it was [ decided to re enter, determine the lease, and 1 : offer the Is ad for lease by auction; and in the other one steps will be at once taken to get the rent paid, when the Board will accept surrender of the lease or get it transferred to another tenant. Mr. Buckland proposed that Mr John Ferguson be re-elected chairman of the Board. This was seconded by Mr Sourer, and carried. The Chairman said Mr C. A. Whitney, of Mt. Eden, haa written stating he had a furr ther consignment of 14 more Mallard ducks r tn be placed upon the lake at Cambridge. .= That gentleman had been . most lavish in l ii.s euuuuvour to get this tine breed of . ducks firmly established in the Waikato. t and he thought the Board should endeavour > to get the birds specially protected, unti' „ they became well established In the Waij kato. Mr Whitney was tendered the . , thanks of the Board for his many gifts of '" Mallard ducks;.and it was further resolved ! ' to call the attention of the Auckland Accli- . matisation Society to the valuable work i done during the past three years in the . - acclimatisation of the English Mallard at ; r Cambridge. _\ CAMBRIDGE ROAD BOARD. ?+! The Cambridge Road Board met at Cam- _ ! bridge on Saturday. Information was re- _ ceived from the Government, stating that 7' section 68, of Tamahere Parish, had been ;JJ ■ vested in the Board as a gravel reserve, " and was gazetted as such in the issue or ,f the 14th of last month. The reserve is ' 6*i acres, situated close to Pickering's Gully. !.' It was decided to lease the land for a term, £ I of 14 years, the Board reserving the right 71 jto take what gravel it requires. A letter )z I was received from the Cambridge Chamber 13 of Commerce, asking the Board to contribute something towards the 6um of £25, which the Chamber had guaranteed to raise as the Cambridge share of the' deficit on the Waikato exhibit at the Christchurch. .) Exhibition. The Chairman said they had not the funds to do so, and he did not think the ratepayers would Sike their funds being expended in that manner. The County Council had received a similar letter,- and they had deferred the matter to a future o- meeting< He would rather subscribe hims. self than spend the ratepayers' money in that way. It was resolved to write tha Chamber accordingly.