TAURANGA NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18020, 20 February 1922, Page 5

TAURANGA NEWS.

[BY TELEGBAI'H.—OWN CORRESPONDENT.] TAURANGA, Saturday. Tho Tauranga District Eigli School Committee at a meeting this week passed a resolution congratulating the headmaster and staitf on the successes of pupils in the secondary department in the recent public examinations. Ten candidates entered for the Public Service entrance examination, and eight passed, three getting into the credit list. One was eleventh for the Dominion. One candidate obtained a senior national scholarship and four candidates matriculated, three gaining a complete pass. During the week a mob of 300 fat steers passed through via Kaimai Road from the Bav of Plonty to the Waikato. Flaxmilling operations continue active at the coastal mills, good outputs being regularly shinned to Auckland from Rangitaiki and Kaituna. Maize crops all over the district are looking exceptionally well and if favourable weather is experienced during the next two months the yield should be above the average. A fine crop of 300 acres on Motiti Island is probably tho best in the Dominion. Tho passjpn fruit crop promises well this season; vines oyer 12 years old at the horticultural station are laden with fruit. An excellent object lesson in afforestation is seen at the Government horticultural station. A little over four years ago about 30,000 pimis radiata and gums wero planted on the eastern slopes. These trees aire all doing well and some pines have attained a height of over 20ft. and IBin. in circumfererice.