December Meeting Of Kaikohe Town Board

Northern Advocate, 15 December 1943, Page 6

December Meeting Of Kaikohe Town Board

(Special) KAIKOHE, This Day. The December meeting of the Kaikohe Town Board was held on Tuesday evening. the chairman (Mr. G. S. Penney) presiding.

Following receipt of a letter from the Kaikohe branch of the Plunket Society containing a request resolved upon at tbo annual meeting of the branch only a few hours previously, it was decided to approach the Patriotic Committee on the question of obtaining the Patriotic Council’s assent to use the Servicemen’s Hut on Friday and Saturday mornings by Ihe Plunket district nurse. Present accommodation, it was agreed, was entirely unsuited for tlie purpose. In reply to a letter sent after the last meeting of the Town Board 1o the District Engineer, Public Works Department, in Whangarei, drawing attention to the fact that the military huts which the Army Department had erected on Reed Park during' the military emergency, were still there after a lengthy period of disuse, the acting District 1 Engineer at Whangarei (Mr. W. L. Bell) wrote to inform the board that the huts would be removed at an early date. The Town Clerk had pointed out that Reed Park was Kaikohe’s summer motor camp, and Mr. Bell gave an assurance that the huts would be removed in time to allow of the ground being available to motorists in the coining holidays.

Magnetic Truck to Pick Up Nails The Public Works Department is to be asked to make its magnetic truck available to the board for clearing the town roads of nails and other metal, dropped principally by military vehicles. The question arose when consideration was given a letter from the Kaikohe Chambcr of Commerce enclosing a letter the chamber had received informing it of the forthcoming visit of the magnetic truck. The board received a letter from the Farmers' Union designed to arouse public opinion regarding “the alarming fall in production,” which, it was asserted, had resulted partly from climatic causes, more largely from material causes, such as lack of fertiliser and other farming requisites, and still more from psychological reasons. The last-named included the severe effect of strain upon farmers and their families who had been producing to their maximum over the entire period of the war, and this effect, it was claimed, had been ruined by administrative inefficiency. The chairman: I quite agree with them, but there is nothing we as a board can do about it. We can only receive the letter. Use of Kaikohe Hospital Mr. Morfette asked if any decision liad been forthcoming in respect to the new hospital built at Kaikohe during the emergency period. “If it is planned to use it as a sanatorium for tubercular cases, as has been suggested,” he said, “could we not protest against such a move? In my opinion and in medical opinion I have heard, the site is too low to be suited to that purpose. It miglvt be better to choose Rawene Hospital for tubercular cases and bring the general hospital over to Kaikohe.” The Town Clerk: We’ve agitated long enough for a hospital, and the Government has spent so much money there that they won’t worry what we say. The chairman: We can only wait for the Government’s decision.