WHANGAREI ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13491, 18 May 1907, Page 6

WHANGAREI ITEMS.

1 ■ ■ '.■■■' m ■ [m TELEGRAPH.-— COJITirSPOV'ViXT) :I ■}. ' / ■'; Wii.vs-OAniit, Fridays ■■..'"■ " | i 'V" ' " '•■ ■ ' ■■■..■.■■■■■.■■■ , : ■ ■'■ ,_' : ' ;i, si*y*PßE| ' YESTimt)at there"" arrived in "Wbangaroi | a patient who had beon refused admission ; to the Auckland Hospital, as a result of a, communication , from the North Auckland, ! Board, that body refusing to pay (or any patients from their district • who «to without an order for admission. -The chairman ; of /tho Board says he is determined to put a ; stop to these little excursions to Auck- -. land at/ the expense of the ratepayers of tho district,- which is now - maintaining feu* first-class 'cothage hospitals. ■vi The ■ annual ':'■ meeting of.; the 1 Whingat6KH« Cricket Club has been hold. The \ balance-sheet ■ showed £-5 13s" in hand. The/ medal ''presented for the best batting aver- . ago was won "by D. A. McPhorson, vtWjM'W was not out onco all through the season.;. , ;. " •At th© monthly : meeting of the Harbovr *■• ■"; Board, tho , secretary :• reported that Mr. "k'-h ,Woods was prepared to pay half the. cost | of a land survey, in order to define the - boundaries of his property; to se'cnro a' good ;.'',;; title. 1 . It was decided-not 1 to entertain th& mm proposal..'; Complaints wore made by van- .;.,- ous commercial* travellers with .[rcfeifenca ):■. to wharfage !,";dues/charged - both ways ,on [l:§ : § sample goods landed- and reshippfd at th« . Town Wharf. The Board resolved not to alter the existing by-law. . Mr. Oarratb, /■; tho Board's solicitor, submitted a draft of ''. a!/ Bill to be presented to Parliament for . | constituting a" new Harbour Board. AV 1? ecjrnir.ittee was appointed to peruse iim Bill, and take the necessary steps' to give effect to, the same. Accounts amounting to £35 7s were passed for payment. Mr. H. Morgan, living. at a ' settlement, •'"•, near Otaika, who recently ! erected a build- .":.''. ing, under tho alleged prorniso of the Auckland Education Board that it would bo •used ior i school purposes; states that the f" Board lias now gone back on the promise,"'-. -v on the ground of the building being too ' i. ; • 'ft near other' schools. Mr. Morgan claim* •,; that the nearest- school is four miles and a-half away, and that 40 children would it-' tend if,the Board appointed a teacher.