The Matamata Record THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1920. Brief Mention of all Minor Happening in Matamata and Vicinity.

Matamata Record, Volume III, Issue 202, 25 November 1920, Page 2

The Matamata Record

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1920. Brief Mention of all Minor Happening in Matamata and Vicinity.

The Only Paper published # in the Mutinuata County

Published every Thursday ~T 7; - Offico ' Tower Road P.O. Box 38 . ’PiIONK 82

The date of the closing, of applications for the War Loan has boon extended to December 16th. The Rev. R. W. Jackson is lv n a visit to his son in Auckland this week, but will return for Sunday’s service. The Town Clerk (Mr. B. Blenncrhassett) has been indisposed for some days, being confined to his bed. The tender of Mr. D. Fussey has been accepted by the Matamata Town Board for carting material for the installation of the water supply system.

The Matamata Methodist Sunday School anniversary will be held on Sunday, the preacher being Rev. E. A. Jefferson. There will be special singing by the. children. / Messrs. H. 0. Cooper and W t 11. Mathers have been nominated for one vacancy on the Hungahunga Drainage Board. The election will be held on •Monday next, Waharoa and Wardville being the nearest polling places to Matamata. t. The Matamata Town Board has revised its charges for the use of the Town Hall, increasing the charges generally for visiting companies. Improvements are also to be made to the hall for the manager’s convenience, and half the cost of telephone charges for the manager’s residence will be paid by the Board. A returned soldier named David Burke, in the employ of Messrs. Steele ■v and' Henning, sawmillers at Hinucva, met with an accident on Saturday. fylrJ Burke got one of his fingers on the right hand severely crushed whilst engaged in.'•stacking timber. Dr. Car.olin attended the sufferer, whose wound is now progressing. When the ordinary business of the Town Board was completed this week, Mr. T. Davies said lie wished there was a full attendance of members as he wanted to re-open the question of asking those who were subdividing to kerb and channel roads. He thought this resolution was stopping progress. 'A discussion ensued, but Mr. Davies found no sympathisers among the members present. On behalf of Messrs. Edward Allen and Co., five farm sections at Okoroire railway ranging in area from 100 acres to 260 acres, and comprising in total 820 acres, were offered for sale by public auction on the property on Monday of last week by the Farmers’ Co-operative Auctioneering Co., Ltd., but the bidding in no case reaching the reserve, no sale was effected.