TUAKAU AFFAIRS.

Franklin Times, Volume XXI, Issue 67, 10 June 1931, Page 5

TUAKAU AFFAIRS.

ST. JOHN’S ANGLICAN CHURCH.

ARRANGEMENTS TO ENLARGE

A meeting of parishioners of St. John’s Anglican Church, Tuakau, including the vestry and ladies’ guild, was held on Monday evening to consider the enlarging of the church. The vicar, the Rev. C. A. Vaughan, presided. After consideration, it was decided to add 26 feet an'd two wings to the front of the building.

The church is to be turned to face the east. The new portion will be the chancel and the present chance! will be enlarged into the church to provide additional seating accommodation. The alterations will include the addition of a new' vestry and alcove for the baptismal font. The Rev. Wingfield, of Devonport, who w T as present, is preparing plans and estimates. Tenders are to be invited for the w'ork.

At the meeting, £55 was subscribed toward the cost of the w'ork, and it is understood that a further £2O was donated yesterday. Unemployed Relief Works.

Since the commencement of the No. 5 unemployment scheme a number of works have been undertaken in the town board’s area.

In Gibson road, extensive alterations have been made. The road w'as regraded and widened, and it is to be re-metalled in places and the present culverts extended. The footpaths in Jellicoe avenue have been reformed and metalled, while the entrances to properties on the northern side have been metalled. The footpaths and culvert at the corner of Church and George streets were re-laid. Works to be undertaken include: The forming of footpaths at the corners of George and Madill streets, and Bollard road and Carr street, in addition to the installing of timber watertables. The triangle at the corner of Buckland road and Jellicoe avenue is to be planted with trees, and watertables in Dominion road are. to be given attention. In Geraghty’s road, the watertables are to be attended to. An unused well at the old redoubt in the cemetery is being covered with heavy iron and timber.

Building Returns

During the year ended on- -March 31 last, buildings of a value of £2,880 were erected in the town district. For the period from January 1 to May 31, 1930, new' buildings erected and additions made to existing ones totalled £1,310. For the corresponding five months of this year the permits issued were for w'ork totalling only £BO in value.

Whdngarata-Pokeno Road.

At ils meeting on Thursday last, the Tuakau Town Board, as reported in Friday’s issue, decided to support the application of the Franklin County Council for the Governor’s warrant for the Whangarata-Pokeno (new) road. When the warrant is issued the work w'ill be legalised, and it is hoped locally that the county will expedite the work of erecting tw r o bridges and met - alling the new route via the old railway line. It is felt that the road w'ill be of little use to Tuakau residents until it is metalled.

Vital Statistics. The vital statistics for Tuakau for the quarter ending on March 31 last, as supplied by the postmaster, Mr IT. G. Foster, are as follow, the figures for the corresponding period of last year being given in parentheses: Births, 6 (7) : deaths, h (2) ; marriages, 1 (2). General Items. Arrangements have been made by the Tuakau District Recreation Club to erect a dressing shed for the use of the girls playing hockey. To-morrow evening the recently formed Tuakau branch of the Franklin Returned Soldiers’ Association are entertaining the members of the Tuakau Women’s Institute and other ladies who have assisted ex-servicemen. The Tuakau Football Club is making arrangements lo hold a social very shortly.

Cars and trucks totalling 210 and 22 motor-cycles have been re-licensed at Tuakau.

The town board has issued 83 drivers’ licenses up to yesterday. A new house is being erected on the Tuakau-Buckland road for Mr Kewish, to replace the Ixvo-storeyed house destroyed by fire last year. Mr W. .T. Taylor, chairman of the town board, who recently returned from the Auckland hospital, is making a good recovery from the accident he sustained. He will shortly he able to resume his duties.

Mr G. N. Asher, hairdresser and tobacconist, has removed to premises which he formerly occupied and has made extensive alterations.

A particularly heavy fog shrouded Tuakau and Pukekawa yesterday morning. Coming after a heavy frost it was exceptionally cold, and was so dense that objects could not be seen 50 yards away. Strange to say the fog was not so dense near the Waikato river. By rnid-day the fog bank had lifted with the exception of in valleys. Local residents stated it was the coldest morning they had experienced for a long time.