PROVINCIAL NEWS.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 261, 4 November 1929, Page 12

PROVINCIAL NEWS.

TE AROHA

At the annual meeting of the Benevolent Society, at which the Mayor, Mr. R. Coulaer, presided, Mrs. Frear, the president, stated the society had helped in a number of cases of distress. They had received a donation of £7 from an anonymous donor, £V.i 16/6 from , "The Players," and 5/9 from the X-Kay Committee.

The election of ollicers resulted as follows:—President, Mrs. Frear; vice-presi-dents, Mesdames, Hedge and Cochrane; treasurer, Mrs. Atkins; committee, Mesdames Carroll, Woodroofe, Hughes, Hamilton, Hunger and .Smith. The office of secretary was left in abeyance for the meantime.

In the matter of Sunday tennis an appeal has been made to the club to restrict the hours of play from 12 noon to o p.m., so as not to interfere with church hours.

MATAMATA,

Mr. D. McDonald, of Mastertou, has been appointed stock and noxious weed Inspector for the Matamata district. Mr. J. L. Morris, formerly inspector at Matamata, has been transferred to Cambridge. Mr. McDonald's appointment is an addition to the inspectors of Waikato.

An important block of land in Tower Road was offered for sale on Thursday. The block has a frontage of 66ft, and is alongside the section on -which it is proposed to build the Union Theatre. Bidding commenced at £ 1200 and finished at £1550 at which it was passed in.

In response to a petition of seventeen ratepayers the Matamata Town Board i≤ taking steps to alter the name of Tower road to Broadway. This is one of the two principal thoroughfares in the town, part of the Waitoa-Tauranga main highway.

PUTARURU.

Thirty-two boys who have completed their training on the Salvation Army's Boys' Farm, at Putoriru, were dispatched to various new spheres of employment this week. Their destinations are widely scattered, some going as far north as Whangarei, while others arc en route to the Taranaki district. To date 700 boys have been trained under the Army's scheme.

At tho Putarnni Police Court on Thursday, Henry Meroiti, a Maori aged 22, was charged on three counts with assaulting his father, mother and sister. Accused pleaded guilty and on his undertaking to leave tho district was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence when called upon.

WHAKATANE.

At a meeting of tho Whakatanc Chamber of Commerce Mr. L. Buddie, president, was in the chair. Mr. C. H. Brebner attended and outlined the history of the Te TekoGalatea Koad and of the County Council's efforts to get this road completed. The position is that £ 10.000 has already been spent on the road, and £4000 is required to complete the connection. The settlers have found all they can of the money, and the late Government intended to complete the work. There is approximately 54 chains of heavy bluff'work left to complete, and the Minister of Public Works has refused to make a free grant this year, £1000 having been requested. It was decided to send a telegram to the Minister, followed by a letter, requesting reconsideration and the placing of an amount on this year's supplementary estimates as a free grant A large area of land, and the largest block of totara timber left in New Zealand, together with large tracks of rimu, arc locked up until this road is completed, hence the urgency.