RANGIORA.

Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14563, 14 January 1913, Page 9

RANGIORA.

From January L'Oih Tart 11. of the Motor Regulation Act will come into operation in the County. KAIAPOI. A mooting of tin* Canterbury Cycling and .Sports' Association wa.s held on Thursday last, Mr U. C. Kevell, president, in the /-hair. Permits wore granted tin , Waimairi and Kaiapoi Cycling Club for sports' inectin<iS on January LOth and Xivd, respectively. Thtj .secretary reported tiiat upwards <>i" 100 licenses had been taken out. The .treasurer reported n satisfactory balance in hand, and sundry accounts were passed for payment. Yesterday Mr M*. GillVJd<.'r,~Jiulße of the .Native Land Court sitting at Kaiapoi, with a number of the yTirties intx'rested, inspected the Maori reserve of 15 acres, known as Tawlijtioteran-rnrn-tea. Itis onyosite Mr Moody's farm, on the North road, between * Kaiapoi and "Woodend, and is proposed to bo alioted !as a settlement nmony about twenty persons. All of the allotees will have a frontage O n the North road. When the new village comes into existence, the Postal and telegraph Departments will find the name of nineteen letters something to be wrestled with.

A new telephone exchange lias been installed tin the Kaianoi Post Office, making provision for fifty subscribers, and the bureaux of Woodend. Waikuku, Ohoka, Eyroton, C'larkville, Coutts' Island and Swannnnoa. Our. of the 333 old atre pensions in force in the Kaiapoi electorate, upwards of sixty oainc forward this month for renewal, and one or two widows' pensions have been armlicd for.

It was Kaiapoi No. 3 team which won the relay race at the swimming carnival on Saturday, not No. 1. The successful team was:—A. Md'horson, C. Mallnsch, It. Wylio and C. Hoskins.