TAURANGA AFFAIRS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18026, 27 February 1922, Page 4

TAURANGA AFFAIRS.

IMPROVEMENT OF ROADS. CONFERENCE TO BR HELD. [m TELEGRAPH-OWN CORRESPONDBHT.I f TAURANGA, Saturday, !'' The eiecutivo of tho Bay of Pl en L j Development League held a meeting ]1 I evening to discuss the question of hold! ing a conference regarding good roada" in view of the fact that the Government Bill had been shelved. It w M deadej to convene a meeting of public bodiei in the Bay of Plenty, to ob held at | Tauranga, at an early date. *"" ! Light showers fell yesterday and to, I day, and have further improved the gttai '■ flush of grass on farms throughout tU district. Milk yield*, from dairy herdj this season promise to bo a record. A number of men employed on the Earf Coast raOway construction works between Tauranga and Waiioa River, westward, of Tauranga, have been transferred % Matata and Pongakawa sections. E At a meeting of the committee of tiu Tauranga Acclimatisation Society W night, it was decided that the season for I shooting red deer should open on April 1, and close on April 30. The feo was 1 I fixed at £2, tho number to be limited to i three heads per license. It was decided 1 I that ten licenses bo issued, and if m ot 9 I ! than ton applications are received they will be decided by ballot. j A meeting of the Tauranga Toßrist Traffic League was held last night, when W a conference took place with tho service proprietors on the subject of through k fares from Waihi, MatamaU aad t J Rotorua to Tauranga, and then to Auci. ! land. An agreement as to fares was reached. It was decided that represeatations be made to the Prime Minister when he is in the district neit w»ek ! regarding the condition of the ro&d b». '■ tween Tauranga and Rotorua, via To PuU I with a view to ascertaining what assist m ance might be expeoted toward putiing 'Hi it in first-clcss order. _ Representation! W will also be made regarding the improvement of Kaimai Road. The committee of the Bay of Plenty Jockey Club met last | Mr. F. Sinclair Yates wrote ap. plying for renewal of the totalisator contract with tho club. The matter was f deferred. A motion wa3 unanimously carried to the effect that the secretary be instructed to write to the Te Anna Jockey Club, thanking the president and members for their generous help in con. ; p nection with the Bay of Plenty Jocta [f Club's race meeting at Te Aroha last, December.