NEWS FROM COUNTRY DISTRICTS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 11537, 23 November 1900, Page 6

NEWS FROM COUNTRY DISTRICTS.

» [FROM our OWN correspondents.] hamilton. AN adjourned meeting of the Borough Counofl was held on Wednesday evening. The onlv business was the presentation of the report ox the committee set up to report on the Hamilton traffic bridge. The report was as follows:—After reading the report of the Lands and Survey Department, it was unanimously resolved that in view of the report from the Department this committee is of opinion that a new bridge should t« erected rather than repaii the old structure, and that the bridge should be the same width as the present one, 18ft, as a bridge of less width would not meet the requirements of the traffic. The committee recommend, farther, that a conference of chairmen of contributing bodies be called to arrange foi. a deputation to wait upon the Hon. Mr. Ward, and place the matter before him on the occasion of his visit, and that the town clerk write an.l endeavour to arrange a date for the chairmen to meet the Mayor and discuss the line of action to be taken by the deputation." The report was adopted. TE AWAMUTU. A MEETING of the executive of the Waikato Liberal Federation was held in the Te Awamutu Town Hall on Wednesday. All the executive were present. I* was decided to request the Minister for Hallways to consider the urgent necessity for a railway siding at Lake Road, near Ohaupo. It was alsj decided to ask that arrangements may b« made for a later train on the usual sale dayi at Ohaupo and Hamilton, as under the pre sent arrangements farmers attending a salt from Te Awamutn and intermediate station! are compelled to leave before the conclusioi of the sales; also, to ask improvement in thi service connecting the King Country with Wai kato. Arrangements were made to entertain Messrs. Seddon, Ward. Hall-Jones, Duncan, and Cadman at a banquet on the occasion <i their approaching visit to Te Awamutn. It was aIBO decided to unite with the Waikato Farmers' Club in urging the free carriage of manure. A post, office is to be opened at Rangiaohia. on December 1. The official name of the office will be Hairini. Mails will be exchanged daily with Te Awamutu.