HATAITAI DISTRICT

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 17, 19 July 1940, Page 8

HATAITAI DISTRICT

.*» District matters were discussed at the meeting of the executive of the Hataitai Municipal Electors' Association on Monday evening. Mr. M. Levy reported that the committee appointed to act With him had planted 300 trees in the areas of the right-of-ways leading to Rakau Road from Hataitai Road and the tram tunnel. The trees are pohutukawa, oaks, karo, and akeake. Consideration was given to the best means of keeping those parts clear from gorse and weeds, and it was decided to ask the City Council for authority to plant the adjoining ground in potatoes, the crops to be applied for patriotic purposes. Reports were also made on the representations to the council on the use to which it was proposed to put the library site in Waipapa Road and the regulation of the use of the claypit in Moxham Avenue-William Street area. It was stated that the council had come to an arrangement to grant a temporary permit to the Plunket Society for the erection of Plunket rooms on that portion of the library site which fronts on the right-of-way leading from Waitoa Road. With regard to the clay-pit, it was decided to renew the representations. The council will be requested to deal with such activities in what was solely a residential area. Complaints were made of the footpaths in Moxham Avenue. -

Arrangements have now been made for the acceptance of cablegrams in the Maori language for transmission overseas, according to advice received in Rotorua, states a local correspondent. The question was first mentioned to the Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. P. Fraser, by Sir Apirana Ngata, when a telegram to his son containing several Maori words was declined by the Post Office at Parliament Buildings. Mr. Fraser replied at first that he could foresee difficulty in having the censorship regulations amended, and in the possibility -of tlie telegrams not being accepted by the cable administration and by the Governments overseas. The following day, however, he advised Sir Apirana Ngata that all difficulties had been overcome.