LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS

Patea Mail, Volume XLIX, 28 November 1928, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS

Tlii‘ Commissioner of Crown Lauds, Wellington, invites applications i' l tins issue tor the lease of si grazing run.

The animal meeting of the Patea Amateur Athletic Club on Monday last lapsed for want of a quorum.

Mr. A. Wuug has j • received supp.ies of tomatoes (island and hot house), American grapes, choice strawbeir.es, gooseberries, fresh cherries, lUtuapples, green peas, -and new pettitoes.

Th:U the local beach is becoming inrreasiagiy popular as a seaside resort is shown 'ey the fact that. t!U cars were counted parked at the end of the new road to the beach on Sunday afternoon, and close on NJU people were to be seen enjoying themselves in (he liver ami picnicking on the sand. The only obstacle to the beach being a first - class picnic resort was the absence 01 a supply of drinking water, but this diJliculty, we understand, has prospects of being overcome, a guarantee having been signed to defray the cost of laying the water to the beach by means of a iin pipe. All that remains is for the consent of the council to be given to the granting of the water supply when the town should be the most popular seaside resort between New Plymouth and 'Wellington. Some swings have been erected for the use of small children, and it is to be hoped that the large “children’' will not ill-use them, and so deprive the smaller ones their enjoyment.