KATIKATI

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XX, Issue 2851, 6 July 1892, Page 2

KATIKATI

FROM OTJE OWN COBEESPONDENT.

Katikati footballers of late have been growling against the weather as this is the fourth consecutive Saturday that they have had no practice on account of the wet, and next week they have to> play Tauranga. It is to be hoped they will be let off with something less than forty points to ml. The local Dram and Fife Band is laying in quite a stook of popular tunes against the concert time of the year, whatever that may be. Mr Brown evidently has the members well in hand, and certainly deserves credjt for his successful endeavours. /lr^i& currently reported that Col. Fraser tas promised to obtain from the Government a £ per £ grant for the construction of Thompson's Track, but it is feared we shall | not be able to raise our part; for, as one person remarked, the Defaulter's List is now the long list compared to that of the paid one, whereas in former years it w»vs vice versa. This means not only the loss of rates or expenditure in recovering the same, but "the greater loss of the Government subsidy. It is a pity that those people who clamour and grumble about the roads being in a bad state of repair don't see this, and pay their rates like honest people* in time. Perhaps it ia not generally known that the Government pays, a subsidy only on rates collected' prior to the 3 1st March, so that by not paying at once people are only robbing themselves. " Fregret to have to report the illness of one of our most genial and esteemed fellow - settlers, Mr Mulvany. sen., who sinoe his return from Rotorua has been very ill indeed. It is hoped the kiad care and solicitude of his loving family , will pull him safely through. / Thiß flour-mill has been very y ,buay this Reason, and has, turned^ oatr- a 'very'(satis - f factory article. • * 1 ; Many of the young men of this distriot have found payable employment at Waihi, and I daresay more will go yet to assist Mr J. Slevin to execute his oontraot with Mr J, McLennan for 2000 tons of wood delivered at the battery. . ' There have been inquiries here lately for jlund with a view to sheep farming by gentlejmen from Canterbury. It is very desirable that a run should be taken up here a 3 Katikati c*n produce a y&ry good class of sheep, the jaioy fern and ti-tree tops being preferred Hy them to clover ( vide Pamphlet. ) • Some of our inhabitants have awoke to the fact that there is money in the sea and we have now two rival companies of fishermen catering for the custom of the Katikati people and the Waihi market, f One company has gone in for a cutter' and trawl-net for deep sea fishing, and also intend to tin fish if possible- More power to them.