TOKAORA.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LVII, Issue LVII, 28 April 1910, Page 4

TOKAORA.

(From Our Own Correspondents •■ The annual meeting of householders' was held in the schoolroom on Monday, 25th inst. There was a fair muster. Mr Mills was voted to the chair. Thoannual report and balance-sheet was ', read and considered highly satisfactory. , It was a recommendation to the incom1 ing committee to erect a flagpole, swing . , and horizontal bars, and that the School i Committee procure a medical chest for • [ simple complaints and accidents. I have * L already reported the result of election. > The householders' meeting being end- . Ed those present resolved themselves [ into a settlers' meeting. Mr Mills, in I the chair, said the most pressing need just now was better postal facilities and I telephone connection. The back-blocks . ! wore nearer to the largo cities in this ' respect than Tokaora was. The telegraph posts and wires passed through L their centre, yet we had to journey • several miles if we wanted to send a . i wire. Tokaora beach was becoming a > groat summer resort for Hawera peo- • pie and the back country, even as far - I up as Eltham. At one time last year i there were 40 tents and over 200 peo- • pie camped on our seashore. Many i business people complained we had no i telephonic communication. If such was • established when these business people l received their mail they could attend ■ to their business transactions without • going into the busy city. He had no i doubt but those Hawera residents in- > terested in our seaside resort would • lend their assistance | the settlers were ■ all handicapped in this respect. A good . • deal of discussion of a conversational ; nature took place. It was ultimately ; resolved to leave th© matter in the- ; hands of Mr John Finlay. i The next step was to resolve into a [ factory suppliers' meeting. Mr W. J. Laurent noticed that day in the Toka- , ora notes tho facility the Government . gave to procure agricultural lime : also L in the Okaiawa correspondent's letter- ■ the number of empty cows that were . yarded. Now, he was a great believer . in lime ; he had used it about his cow- • . shed and yards in season and out. He [ even paid 12s 6d per sack for the limo, and one thing he ' noticed he had no abortion in his> herd since he started ' using lime. Whether there was any , connection between the two things he . was not prepared to prove, but lie . thought the lime killedJfci germs of abortion. It was finally nßlved that it r be a recommendation to our local direcp tor on the Hawera Dairy Company's Board, Mr B. Duffell, "That the company procure a few truck loads of lime for coming season, failing that the company to order one truck load for Tokaora suppliers." It was mentioned that one Taranaki company used lime freely last season, and had not one second grade cheese. When Mr J. W. Deem • was local inspector he was a groat believer in lime.