PATETONGA.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXXI, Issue 5595, 4 July 1930, Page 4

PATETONGA.

A BUDGET OF NEWS ITEMS. DOMAIN BOARD. The Patetonga Domain Board is endeavouring to secure from the Land Board a number of unoccupied Crown sections near the Pound site as an addition to' the local reserve. The school has very little playground, and the area which the. Domain Board is endeavouring to secure would provide adequate playing fields for the children, as well as for the district. When the Government cut up the Patetonga township fifteen years ago, this land was offered in quarter-acre sections at £25.a-piece, and so far it has not been purchased. Acclimatisation. Mr. A .Whiteman, the. Patetonga representative of the Auckland Acclimatisation, Society, has arranged for the Society’s ranger to plant trout ova in the Waikaka stream during the coming spring. A quantity of-trout fry will be liberated in the other streams in September. Up to the present little result has followed liberations of fry and it is thought that the young trout has been washed by floods or killed by the muddy water during freshs. Some fair sized trout have been seen, but not sufficient to make it worth anyone’s while attempting to catch them. It is thought that the planting of ova will have better results. Pheasants liberated in the sanctuary • on Mr. Hart’s property in the past are doing well, but as yet have not spread throughout the district to any great , extent. \ Settlers Metal Road. Approximately 92 chains of the Mangawhero Road has now been met- . , ailed ,by the twelve settlers living in the locality,, and only about .21 chains now remains to be done to give every . settler all-weather access to the Kai-here-Patetonga metalled road. The 'work has been done by means of working bees organised by, Messrs. Wilkins and Sexton, and be continued when further supplies of gravel are thrown l out of the roadside drain by Lands Department employees. This attention to the drain is urgently required, as much land is flooded at every heavy rain due to insufficient depth in the channel which carries the water from the hills. Towards the cost of gravelling the road the County Council voted the sum of £5, but owing to the difficulty of dividing this among the twelve men in the proportion in which they, had worked, it. has been, suggested that when the money is received it be-in-vested in a certain Tasmanian sweepstake. ,