TAURANGA NOTES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20152, 12 January 1929, Page 14

TAURANGA NOTES.

BOARD AFFAIRS. RECORD CROWDS AT BEACHES. [rsy TELEGRAPH. —OWN* CORRESPONDENT.] I TAURANGA. Friday. The Tauranga Harbour Board met yes terday, Mr. D. Grant presiding. Mr. C. E. MacMillan, M.P., and Mr. J. G. Green were appointed delegates to the meeting of the Bay of Plenty Development League at Tauranga on January 25. The board decided to submit a remit to the league to the effect that the Minister of Railways be asked to take over the railway line from Temaunga Junction to Mount Maunganui and to run all excursion trains in the district to the Mount station. The secretary of the Marine Department, in acknowledging a letter making various complaints regarding discharge of sewage into the channel of the Waikareao Estuary, stated the matter was receiving attention. The board decided to ask the Minister of Public Works to maintain access for the public over Mount Maunganui railway wharf. The Ministers of Public Works and Marine are to be invited to visit the district. ® The steamer Pukeko arrived this morning from Tokomaru Bay and landed 1100 6heep for the Waikato. They will be driven over the Kaimai route. Since December 22 there has been an average of over 200 people living in camps on the beach at the eastern end of Fifth, Sixth and Seventh Avenues. The number of holiday-makers at Mount Maunganui is easily a record. The next Sunday excursion to be run by the Railway Department will be from Huntly on January 20. A fine crop of potatoes has been dug from an acre of ground in the borough. The total yield was 112 sacks, 113 sacks to the ton". The crop was marketed in Auckland and the auctioneers' note to the grower was that the consignment was the best sample of commercial potatoes which thev had handled this year.