NEWS FROM COUNTRY DISTRICTS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12625, 4 August 1904, Page 6

NEWS FROM COUNTRY DISTRICTS.

[FBOM OTIS OWN CORRESPONDENTS.] Vy*AITOA. THE monthly meeting of the Road Board was held on Saturday last. There were presentMessrs. Cbeprnell (chairman), Bellamy, Binton, Hughes, and Taylor. It was announced that the Board's overdraft amounted to £232 14s 6:i. Tfc» chairman of the Morrinsville School Committee wrote requesting the Board to put the roads in the neighbourhood of the school in better order, lie also complained of pits duff close to the school fence. It was agreed to attend to t he-no matters. It was decided to put in a small bridge and culvert on the continuation o) Knight's Road. Ti: KUI'II. ON the 30th tilt., the To Kuiti Debating Society held its first public meeting. 'I lie subject of the debate wwi " The Advisability of introducing tiie Counties Act into this subdivision of the County of Kawhia." The voting at the conclusion went in favour of the Counties' Act beinxf introduced. The object of the society in holding a public debate on this question was to ascertain tbe difficulties in the way, and whether the progress of the district would make such a step desirable in the near future. WHANG ABET. AT the Borough Council meeting Mr. Jackson was thanked for attending the conference of borough, councillor's lately held at Wellington. The following 13 the report of the assistantforester of the Government experimental grounds at Kamo tor the month of July: — 1.4 inches is the biggest day's rain during the month, this being on the 4th ult., 2.64 inches being the total for the month. Maximum temperature on the 13th, C 6 decrees, the minimum temperature (on 25th) being Z5 degrees. equal tc 7 degrees frost, the lowest of anv record in Northern districts.