LOCAL AND GENERAL

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5581, 29 July 1910, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Te Puke Winter Show prizes will, bo paid at the secretary's office on Wednesday next. The next sitting of the Magistrate's Court in Taurangu .will *» icld on August 11. The monthly meeting of the To Puke Road Board will be held tomorrow afternoon1. A further consignment of 18 wheelbarrows, tents, shovels, and. 1 tools, came to hand to-day per th» steamer Aupouri from Auckland for the Public Works Department. The Town Band will render a musical programme at the shore end of the Town Wharf to-morrow evening. A collection will be taken* up in aid of the uniform fund. Elt&am intends to go in for i a Bubst'anti'alf new/ and. upntondaite town hall, library, and municipal ofjices, An<\ ;«• dpeesal lonn of £('^>oo Is boing raised for the work. The work of connecting new subscrilwrs with the telephone exchange is now in progress under the supervision of Mr J. A. McKenzic. A new line is to be constructed in Willow Street, so as to relieve the Strand line. f A six-rooinedf liousjo and of land, between Ninth and Tenth Avenues, fronting Cameron Road, was! offered by Auction by the New Zealand' Lorn* land Mercantile :\.gvnry Co., Limited, at noon to-day. The property was passed in at £355. The Borough Council's staff is at present engaged in clearing the eastern side of the Strand of grass and other growth, *n>d in removing the withered leaves from the cabbage and palm trees. As a result t'u> main street! jtyjars a; much more presentable appearance. A mail <for the United Kingdom, Canada, and thy United States of America, via Vancouver, will close at the Tauranga Post Oflice on Tuesday next at 7.30 a.m. A mail for the United Kingdom and Europe will also be despatched at 3 pin., the following day. The gate takings at the liinvera Winter Show, umJouiijUjd to £<>il. In the prospectus issued, upon which shares were lir.st taken up (says the Star), the estimated' receipts from, this source weru £350, so thut the original expectations in this respect were greatly excluded. At its last show, Waikato's "gate" was £57<i. The annual generali meeting of the Te Puke Bowling Club will be held j in Sir Montgomery's hotel on MVmday next, August 1, at 7.30. Members and intending memibers arc especially invited to attend. The business of the meeting- will be the election of oilicers for the ensuing year. Arrangements are .being made to immediately erect two copper wires between Auckland and Wellington for telegraph purposes by a new route on the Main Trunk railway line, which is much] shorter than the existing routes. These wires will be used during certain hours /or telephone purposes ljetween the two cities. A moot ing of the committee appointed to promote southern steamship communication was held in Messrs Norris and Bell's office on Tuesday. Present : Rev. w. Barnett Messrs M. Spcnce, J. G. Green, and C. C. Norris. It was decided to ask the Te Puke Progressive League to appoint a committee to assist in the movement. Mr Harris was requested to writo to Mr T. Henderson for more detailed information in regard to the Company;.. The Government is quite prepared and ready to purchase native land in the vicinity of Cambridge, Mr Herrie.s was informed by the Native Minister j u the iiouse /of ■Representatives on Wednesday. Mr Maedonald was told the same day that the native land areas purchased In the Opotiki district wil be opened for settlement as soon as the roads giving access have been located. In regard to the acquisition of native land in the Urewera, it was stated that reports have been'obtained, and an area of 90,000 acres had been dealt with by the .Native, Lrnd Purchase Board. Further areas are under offer which will increase the extent to about 30,000 acres.