PROVINCIAL NEWS.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 10, 12 January 1929, Page 16

PROVINCIAL NEWS.

MORRINSVIIXE.

A movement is ou foot in Morrlnsville to organise a community picnic r.t Taurang.i In conjunction with the Kchool excursion in February. It is proposed to take tenuis,! cricket, bowling nnd croquet teams—for competition with Tauranga sides, and to invite MorrinsvUle business firms t<. co-operate by organising house picnics Tauranga people arc said t<. be most enthusiastic over the proposal, and that they will fall in with any arrangements made. Should the excursion event mi to it is probable that a return visit will be made by Taurangn residents in the winter, when football, hockey and golf contests will be arranged. A recommendation that a bv-lnw he passed setting back by six feet the building line from Studholnte Strc-t to Dignau street, on the south side of Hamilton Koad was made at the Morrinsville Borough Council meeting last evening, nnd the matter was left over until next meeting on account of legal complications. The MorrinsvUle Swimming Club has been granted permission to hold a carnival on Jauuary 22.

TE AROHA.

General sympathy is felt for Bottv I.ennard, aged eight years, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Kennard. of Walhoii. who had both feet severed at the ankles liv ■• mowing machine on Thursday. Since th operation, the patient is * reported to be progressing satisfactorily. Xurse Muriel Stewart, of Waihou. has received an appointment in the Foreign Mission of the Methodist Church, and will leave. Auckland for the Solomon Islands next week. Nurse Stewart "will have charge of a new hospital. ..which will be supervised by Dr. .lames. The figures of the Stipendiary- Magistrate s Court for 1!»:>K show an" increase m criminal cases and judgment summonses over those of l<>27. Following are the particulars for 1!»28, the 1!>27 Hgures being ,1o- I ? arPnthesPs: ~ rril " l " uI barges, 145 {lilit} : persons arrested, 3ft (30) • siinicV'ToLv 106 < 105i >: JMdßinent summonses! t>l (38); distress warrants, 14 (14>amount sued for, £4750 (£5100) : Court fees £274 (£297): fees collected in fines ¥--y ttb lV°, t he Main Highways Board, £21

TAURANGA.

The Tanrnnsa Borough CouiuU'm first liieHinj; of the year, on Wwllifmlnv ni-lit was a short 0n... Following the |>nssiii£ of legislation last year, the council agrvfd tn submit to the Valuation Department a list of about fifteen proper! i*-s which it is considered are purely farm lands, in order that a .special valuation may be mud,. Riving relief from rating on the unimproved value Mr. O. W. Henderson, who is leaving lauranga after having been In business here for ten years, was fun-welled on the Tauraiiga Bowling Clubs green and -presented with ii silver cake basket. Several speakers voiced appreciation of Mr. Henderson's services to the club during his term as president, and also of the assistance, rendered bv Mrs. Henderson. A line of SJ(H} ewes is being landed at Tauranga from Tokoniaru Kay by the Kichardson steamer Pukeko. Hod being unloaded yesterday. The sheep, which are in excellent condition, are from Mr. A B Williams' station, and art- consigned to Mr K. If. Bailey, of Tirau. The Tauranga Harbour Board met yesterday, there being present : Messrs. I). Grant (chairman). C. H. Clinkard. M.1 , .. (." E McMillan. M.1 , ., 0. Mends. H. Wilson. A .1 Mirrielees, C. I-ally, .1. (J. Ureeu and W. I*. Sinclair. Congratulations w»>re extended by the chairman to Messrs. Clinkard avid McMillan on their election to Parliament. Messrs. MacMillan and Green were - appointed delegates to a meeting of the Bay of Plenty Development League to be held on the 25th lust, at Taurauga.

An alteration to the by-laws was made which -will allow the board t<» meet nt longer intervals than one month. A remit Is to be forwarded to the Bay of Plenty Development League urging the Railway Department to take over the section of railway from Te Maunga Junction to the Mount. It wns decided that the Ministers of Public Works and Murine be invited to visit the district.