MATAMATA ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13285, 18 September 1906, Page 3

MATAMATA ITEMS.

[FROM OCR OWN" correspondent.]

Fixe, mild growing weather has generally prevailed during the week, and moot of the crops and young grass are now coming on very satisfactorily.

As the traffic is daily increasing to and from tho Waharoa railway station, the absence of a. suitable loading bank is very much felt, and a petition to the Railway Department is being numerously signed praying to have one erected at an early date.

Another effort will soon be made to get an early train to Hamilton and a late one back the 'same evening to enable settlers to visit that centre, do their business, and return home the same day. It is now understood that the Education Department ban decided to erect a school building costing about £100 at. Turanga-o-Moana and that the probable attendance, reckoning" those across the river at Okauia, will be about 20. A new school in the Peria-Puketutu locality is also under consideration. Several improvements are at present- being carried out in and around the Mntamata township, and several local business men are now enlarging their premises owing to the steadily-increasing trade. , Ratepayers in and around \> aliaroa are now about to take steps to urge the Ministry to acquire the block of native hush and swamp land on the eastern boundary of Waharoa and to open it up for selection by the various leaseholders adjacent to it. This block consists of a considerable area of useful land. A petition is about to lie presented to the Minister in regard to this matter.