OUR DAILY FEATURES
A PAGE FROM THE PAST Tauranga 50 Years Ago The Bay of Plenty Times of Mar • 10, 18SS. contained the followa,. paragraphs:— ' “A meeting of the Acclimatm at ion Society was held at their oak-' Strand, on Tuesday evening. Tiier’> were present Messrs de BourJjC 1 Burrows and Gardiner, and CaptainEvened and Kerr. The mimm s 0 f the last meeting were read and cor 1 tinned. A letter from the Colonial Secretary was read, refusing a gram of 40 acres at the Waimapu. R 1,, resolved to forward the correspondence to Mr Kelly, M.H.R., and him to see the Colonial Secretary and try to get the matter arranged Mr W. Tuthill, Kaiikati, has been appointed a ranger by the Government. Mr Miller, of Te Puke, wrote asking to be appointed a ranger This application was sent to the Col lonial Secretary. The accounts were passed for payment. It was resoked to erect a shed in Mr Gardiner’s paddock, to shelter the white deer The amount paid for shooting £ censes to date was £32. It was resolved to obtain 8000 ova to place in the ponds cf tire Society.”
“The Maoris are busily engaged in ploughing in the vicinity of \he Wairoa river, as many as seven ploughs being at work in one pad dock.
“Two vacancies are announced on the Borough Council, caused by the resignation of Mr J. Galbraith] and the retirement of Mr T. W. Rhodes."
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/BOPT19380510.2.21
Bibliographic details
Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXVI, Issue 12346, 10 May 1938, Page 2
Word Count
242OUR DAILY FEATURES Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXVI, Issue 12346, 10 May 1938, Page 2
Using This Item
NZME is the copyright owner for the Bay of Plenty Times. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons New Zealand BY-NC-SA licence . This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of NZME. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in