TE AROHA AFFAIRS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17484, 31 May 1920, Page 5

TE AROHA AFFAIRS.

THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

[dt TKLEGRAPII.— CORRESPONDENT.

TE AROHA. Saturday.

The Te Amha Chamber of Commerce dealt with sevei-.il important matters last evening. Mr. C. Andrews was in the chair. It was decided to continue i* press for another direct telephone line b;tw«»n the Te Aroha district and Auckland.' At present there is great delay in obtaining 'through communication. It was staled' that a new line to serve Thames and Paeroa, ?nd crossing the Hauraki Plains, had been authorised, but poles, etc, vers unobtainable. When this line is const meted there should not b„> such a press of business on the Te Aroha line. The chamber resolved to support the Thames Valley Drainage Board in its advocacy that the Government should create a river board to direct and control the Waibou and Ohiiminuri rivers' improvement works, which at piosent are under the charge of the Public Works Department. ! The Mayor is to be asked to convene a publ'.r meeting as soon as possible to discuss the best means of obtaining the option of the freehold for the borough. The Minister for Railways is to bo asked to at once appoint an officer in charge of the Waihou railway station. In the past there has been so much pilfering of goods consigned to Waibou that settlers ore compelled to have goods sent by boat to Te Aroha. A former Minister for Railways had staled during the war that Waihem's claims'would have consideration as soon as the war ended. The position should suit a partially disabled returned soldier. The Te Aroha War Memorial Com mittee is to be uxjed to take early steps to secure tlio erection of a permanent war memorial, preferably in the Domain. Tho Returned Soldiers' Association has lately decided not to proceed with the projected cluhrooms as a memorial, thus the way is clear for some other form of memorial. The acute shortage of sui£ar in the town and district was mentioned, and it was decided to ask the sugar controller to supply the chamber with a Ist of names of those local people other than retailers, who receive consignments of sugar direct. It is contended there is overlapping, thus pen- | alising other people. The Hauraki harbonr i scheme, light-line railways, and the short-1 ace of cement supplies were also dealt/with, and finally referred to the executive to take farther action,