TE KUITI AFFAIRS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17229, 4 August 1919, Page 7

TE KUITI AFFAIRS.

I THE CfflKßlSS'-OF"'COMSCS I RCIS: I I [BY TEEiEOBAIfH.- i i-OWN COBBESPOJTOSKT.]; j f j;i /,»*. '/if;?, : V^i&iC i £*:'-?--rJ<vCri : '■'■ ■■ p%'.' " ■>.;> \ I', ''.-'.■"'■■-.' '%'■,. ; ; ; : TB;;|OT^;-..gati^sy.'' ' At last night's meeting of the TeKuiti Chamber of Commerce many topics of localimportance • vera "dealt 1 with.. By %;. pre-" vious decision th*- Government was recommended to establish soldiers on grass-seed farms iin the Te'Kuiti district, as ! it •is especially suited for growing clover and other' fodder plants. - ~.'-. '■: §>-£ The' president; Mr.. A. L. Stedman, reported the, receipt of a letter from the Jllnister for-; Agriculture .^statingthat the matter would receive attention in y duo course, when Mr. A. & Cockayne, Govern- '; 'biologist, had a choice of visitingthe i district. , ,--'.v,\".- : -"','., ■ .:'''■,■'£%' "'..!• i -:. "As Mr. Cockayne is about to ; vis«t America," "observed Mr.'Siedman,' "it means that the proposal has Wen, shelved" Trouble has arisen in- connection' - with j the holiday question, and -a committee was j set up to confer with business people ih | regard to the formation of a'shopkeepers* association with the object j- of \ arriving at' uniformity. - r -' '' " •'-"*•?, *"^ A discussion took place on the hospital question. It was moved that the chamber suggest to the Hospital con? sistmg of representatives of the,To Kuiti Borough and Waitomo and Awakino County Councils, the erection of a hospital. As the question of site was involved the matter was deferred until the ; next meeting. ■. •"■ - .'•; ■ ■ Captain Bruce was invited to address the chamber on light railways. '.