TUAPEKA MOUTH.

Clutha Leader, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 12, 15 August 1911, Page 5

TUAPEKA MOUTH.

(From Our Own Correspondent.) The weather for this time of the year is very good, and farm work is being pushed on expeditiously. The autumn sown crops are looking splendid, a fact which augurs well for results of sowing at this time of the year. For some time scarlet fever has been prevalent in this district, and on two occasions the school lias been closed. If the Health Department had seen that the .first eases were properly isolated and premises disinfected ' there would probably have been little fear of further outbreak. The river is very low at present and consequently the steamer trallie is suspended. ' Now is the time to light for the railway. Under the present conditions we are worse oil' than ever, because we are relying on a service which, it is proved, is utterly unreliable and inadequate. Surely a district like ours can support a railway'. Mr P. Melnerney deserves great credit for the way in which he has kept the claims of the railway before the public and the Government. He has been responsible for bringing the Premier and Cabinet Ministers on to the spot, and impressing on them, through, seeing the district, the need of a railway. It has been hinted by someone that at the next annual meeting Mr Melnerney will have to resign the chair in favour of some abler person. It might be easy to sfct a more lluent speaker but we could not get many with more foresight and tenacity in adhering to his purpose and in seeing it out. Personally 1 think it would be a calamity to the League if such a thing 'occurred. Messrs Hardy and lleenan's challcutter is at present busily engaged in the district.' I hear that they want to sell out their threshing and chaffcutting plants. As this is a large district and a great deal of cropping carried on, a threshing plant should be a remunerative speculation. A large concert and dance is to he held on the Ist of September in aid of the Hall funds. A good programme is being arranged, and it is to be hoped a good gathering will be the result. The public hall committee have for some time Veil corresponding with the various departments in regard to securing the land and in building the hall, etc. Departmental wheels, however, grind slowly. 1 think the best way would.be to get the hall up and lind out particulars afterwards.