TE ARAROA-HICKS BAY.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15369, 13 November 1920, Page 2

TE ARAROA-HICKS BAY.

1 hear the Tapahi block, of which me r.overnment has acquired 6000 acres, i^ 'o be cut up shortly, and thrown open i [or settlement. The block lies some dis- j •ance behind Te Ara'roa. easily acccs=able. and will make jjo'xl sheen country. ( It is just a week since Frederick Trenue aisappeared from llieks Bay. There >cems no doubt- he has been drowned. Constable Mclntyre, Of Te Araroa, has j Iccpt a.look-oiit for the body without success. There is very little probability the body will be washed ashore, as the whole coast is rocky and steep. As showing the jn-ent demand there is for land in the vicinity of Te Araroa, t Mnuto.tara, a leasehold with fourteen vears to run, has changed hands at £7 10s per acre. The buyer is Mr. Joe : Oates, of Tokomaru Bay. Another enter- 1 a prising settler has leased a native block lj at ten shilling rental per acre of busnl land. This rental is a record, 1 believe, for bush land on the whole coast. *> To Araroa;, like Gisborne, has its own harbor troubles. A few years a jetty, with a large storage shed was built at a cost of £3000. The jetty was a great success ut first, but later the Awatere river maliciously changed its course and tilled up with shingle; the depth of water there was on the left of the jetty, and io\v at loii( water our wharf is high and Ivy. and'T'ven sometimes at high water it 'is difficult for a surf boat to lie alongside. On account of this difficulty and , the bad weather the Mako steamed to and fro between Te Araroa and Hicks ,i;iy ior nearly a week A No wonder, when some time ago Captain Jones, of : the Mako, was asked for his advice as to the best means*, of making the jetty more useful; he curtly replied, "Push the storage shed into. the sea, and I would tow it to Hicks Bay for nothing. Notwithstanding all the drawbacks in connection with the Te Araroa jetty the balance-sheet submitted by Mr, F. SJackson, late wharfinger, for the halfyear from April 19 to September . 30, this year, necessarily the slack season, showed a credit balance of £298 8s Bd, and that without a penny of bad debt. Tnis is very creditable and shows economic management. ' • The annual meeting of the Te Araroa sports dub was held on November 1. The balance sheet showed the sum of jeitjl was" received over all expenses ui the sports meeting held last Boxing Day, and was expended in assisting • | other clubs connected with the Domain.; ! The bowling club received £110, the .tennis club £25, and the sports club £25 10s. Mr. D. Murphy, the new licensee of the Te Araroa hotel, was elected president of the club for the ensuing year, and Mr. F. S., Jackson, secretary and treasurer, "it was decided to allocate the profits of this year's meeting thus: For a tennis court at the school, 10 peT cent., to the cricket club, -15 per cent., to the Domain Board, 75 per cent. A programme for the next sports meeting, to be held on December 27, was drawn up, and but for one or two alterations, is practically the same as last year's. There was much discussion as to the advisability of retaining the chopping events, several "the events were rather expensive. On Mr. \V. B. Scaidon's offer t,p donate £10 for the events and Mr. A. v Singe's to cart the logs gratis, it was finally decided to retain the chopping events, much to the satisfaction of many who held . the chopping was the great attraction in the whole programme. A medal was also promised on behalf of Mr. D- . J. Barry of Gisborne. Judges for the various events, handicappers and. stewards were appointed.. . . . We in this remote corner of the Dominion are heaTtily in accord with the Herald In. its spirited and outspoken protest against the Government for its partial distribution of the loaves and fishes, i The great East Coast is favored only with the crumbs that fall from Dives' table. ; Simple, and plain. fjicts .speak fori themselves. Between!' Gisborne arid- HiCKs Bay, a radius^ of iusT about b'he' hundred miles, aro to be found five freezing works, and practically every inhabited bay in that distance yearly sends out its portion of the golden .fleece that goes to' swell the wealth of the country and yet we are, so to speak, ignored by the powers that .be. ! "Novv, takes the luclfy North of Auckland... HoWi.,many. freezing'works has it? 'and how many bales of wool does it annually „ put? The. "East Coast will yet "Still; do "greater things when it is developed to its fullc"st "Capacity.—Own correspondent.-