DISTRICT PARS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 85, 5 June 1908, Page 2

DISTRICT PARS.

Mr E. A. Power, headmaster of Te Kuiti school, is well on the way to recovery from his recent illness, and is just now spending a few days at Te Aroha. Mr Power will probably be able to resume his duties on Monday next. In consequence of the date originally iixed for the benefit social to Mrs Bowden at Te Kuiti falling on a day when the local volunteers will be absent at Waikato, it has been decided by the Committee to hold the social a week earlier. The function will therefore be held on Thursday next, June nth. The first portion of the programme will be devoted to musical items, after which dancing will be indulged in.

Attention is drawn to Mr A. H. Hyde's notification in another column to the effect that lie has started a land agency in connection with his business at Matiere. Mr Hyde is well known throughout the district, and his knowledge oi the Ohura hinds should be of benefit to intending buyers. Mr J. B. Thomson, Assistant Surveyor of the Survey Department at Auckland, has been promoted to the position of District Surveyor, to have charge of the Hamilton district. Mr H. M. Kensington, at present engaged in making the standard survey ot Auckland city, has also been promoted to a district surveyorship, and will be stationed at Auckland.

It is stated that the station which has hitherto borne the name oi' i iangaiiki is to be changed to Waiiomo bv the Railway Department.

The survey t<i* the prop.>se<! deviation oi' the Ohura railway has been extended from i'uketutu to Waitewhenua, and has for the present been discontinued. The parly is now engaged in surveying an alternate route to Hangatiki, down the valley of the Mangapu stream.

In the last Government Gazette appears a notice, under the hand of t!P Minister for Lands, authorising the laying-off of Rata, Rimu, Tawa and Matai Streets, in the township of Te Kuiti. Extension No. I, of a width of not less than 66 feet, in place of a width of 99 feet.

A special meeting of the Waitomo Counfy Council, as well as the ordinary meeting, is to be held at Te Kuiti. on Tueaday, June l6th. The ".-ior for the new Te Kuiti 11 ail K rapidly pushing the work of its uvction ahead, and it is under:-lot .;i that an effort will be made to »et the building sufficiently advanced so that it can be used on the occasion of the Premier's visit. The British football team played the third match of the T\cw Zealand tour on Saturdav last, when liiey met' the Otago representatives at I 'nnedin. After a sti'eiuious conicst ()tago succeeded in winning by o points to (>.

Messrs Blackmail and Cobb, of Te Kuiti. in another column, draw attention to the fact that they arc stocking a first-class line of pianos and organs, and invite all those who contemplate installing an instrument to inspect their stock.

An entirely new complexion has been put on the question of the postoffice site at Te Kuiti, and probably the result will be the loss to the Department of the site in Rora-street, which has been under negotiation for some considerable time. This week, it is stated, an offer of £7OO was made to the Maori owner by a private individual for the freehold of the section, Considering that the owner asked £250 for the site when it was put under offer to the C.overnment, the present offer is likely to meet with a favourable reception.

Attention is drawn to an advertisement in this issue of Mr j. Treloar, engineer, of Hamilton, who has opened business on the Frankton Road. Mr Treloar, who was, until recently, foreman locomotive erector for Messrs A. and G. Price, 1 hames, has had a wide experience in England. He intends to make a specialty of farmer's implement repairing and engine work. Mr Smith, architect, of Hamilton, under whose supervision the Rank of New Zealand building at Te Kuiti was erected, visited Te Kuiti on Wednesday, and inspected the completed building. Mr Smith is highly pleased with the way in which the work has been accomplished, and Messrs Mordaunt and Baiiy, the contractors, are to be congratulated upon their work. The fittings, which are the work of Messrs Brown and Co., of Hamilton, are also in keeping with the line appearance of the building. The following letter lias been received by Mr Grcenslade, M.P., and should be of interest to settlers in the King Country Wellington, May 2lst, 1908. —Sir,—l have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 9th inst. addressed to the Hon. Minister for Public Works, covering a communication from Mr W. Vickery, of Otorohanga, urging the erection of the Waipa bridge, Te Kuiti-Otorohanga Road. In reply I have to inform you that instructions have been issued to proceed with the construction, and the necessary authority forwarded to the District Road Engineer, Te Kuiti. —JAS. McGoWAN, Minister for Roads."

Messrs Harris, Armstrong and Trounson, of the Auckland Land Board, visited the King Country during the week, in connection with the adjustment of claims of Grown tenants, who have had portions of their holdings taken for scenic purposes. The Board members paid a visit to Waitomo on Tuesday, returning to Te Kuiti in the evening. Messrs Harris and Armstrong were greatly struck with the progress made in Te Kuiti since their last visit, about two years ago, and predict a big future for the district.

A treat is promised local residents on Wednesday evening next, when Pern 's Salvation Army Bioramaas to visit To Kuiti. This show holds a magnificent reputation, and it will, undoubtedly, be patronised to the utmost limit of the Hall's capacity. 4,000 feet of entirely new moving pictures, of the highest order, will be shown. " How the dog saved the Union Tack,"' takes first order of merit wherever shown, and no one should miss this film. Musical items will be interspersed. Perry's Salvation Army Biorama is at once an educational, amusing, arid withal, a pure show. Major Lusk. an old and enterprising colonist, who has done much pioneering, and is still engaged in it in the King Country as chairman of a County Council, made some apt remarks concerning the Arbitration Act, when this measure was being" discussed at the Auckland provincial conference. Strangely enough, the Act was being condemned by delegate after delegate at the very moment when its repeal was being demanded bv the tramway strikers at a meeting a little further up the street. Major Lusk put the whole position in a nutshell. He said the Act flew in the face of two natural laws —first, that of supply and demand ; second, the inequality of man. Everybody knew that there was no equality in the capabilities of man, neither in respect to production nor efficiency. For this reason, the Act must eventually be a failure.-- Farmer's 1 'nion Advocate. Mr 11. A. ICllison, liovernment Valuator, returned last Friday from an official trip through Waitonio, Awakino and Kawliia counties, going

through to Ivirit eiicre, Marokona, Kinohaka, Awaroa and Oparau, and returning to Te Kuiti via I'inmgia, Puketarata. Oiorohanga. Waitom" and Ooarau. One o| hi- dnlie-; was

lo insta! the ncwiy-app ! anted \ ahu i :• for die Kawhia districts. Mr John Shaw, of Kinohaka, will ha\a ohar.ec of the southern "T Kawhia and a ;).ut of AwM.ino vsah. and Mr i . K. Se> a!, < 1 i < >p.n\.u, I iie n< Tihern p< -n ion of K a whin ( mnty. Mr Kile on informs u ; thai in- has 1 van ad\ i:-vl by the Va'e.s r ucneral thai the i\ vision .m (he Waitomo i 'ouniv lias lie •mpletul l>y 3 !s t M: ie!i. iooo, am! has instructed him (o proc-. Ed with die work as soon as

it is v\ 1111 regret tliat we have to chronicle the death ot iMr L. Reynolds, hrolher of M r L. Reynolds, (if Hangatiki. which took place at l\annevirke on Saturday last. Ihe deceased had been suffering from internal troubles, and was recently operated upon at die Hamilton Hospital, and as no improvement was taking place, it was decided lo remove him to his home.