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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 274, 9 February 1928, Page 16

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(From THE SUN'S Correspondents)

DEATH OF MRS. LOUISA CAME RESIDENT OF NORTH AUCKLAND The death occurred at Rotorangi, near Cambridge, on Tuesday evening, of Mrs. Louisa Waynard Came, at the age of 55 years. Mrs. Came was the wife of Mr. Matthew Came, of Whangapiro, North Auckland. She had been ill for some time, and only arrived in the Cambridge district on Saturday to visit her sister, Mrs. G. Gutz. She leaves a husband and a family of eight. FOR FLIGHT HEROES DARGAVILLE BAND CONTEST The North Auckland Regimental Band gave a benefit concert in the main street at Dargaville on Saturday evening and collected the sum of £lO 2s lOd toward the fund for the widows of the missing aviators, Captain Hood and Lieutenant Moncrieff. Other sums raised in the district recently for the same cause were: £ls from a social at Pukehuia on Friday, and £2O from Omana and Pukehuia residents. RANGITOTO ISLAND BY-LAWS TO BE ENFORCED The meeting of the Rangitoto Island Domain Board last evening had before it an application from owners of shacks at Islington Bay to have prison labour employed improving the tracks in the bay. The board considered the request impossible at present, but when the circular route approaches the bay, and the labour can be economically employed, the project will be revived. In the interests of sanitation the bylaw requiring that shacks be one chain apart is to be enforced. The devices for catching rain water for the use of visitors are to be put in order immediately. FULLY TAXED TE AWAMUTU HIGH SCHOOL The question in connection with the inauguration of instruction in commercial subjects at the Te Awamutu District High School was considered by the committee on Tuesday evening. Comment was made that there was a deadlock at present. There are 28 scholars who desire commercial instruction, but no teachers are available, nor is there a room available. The headmaster stated that the roll number in the secondary department is now 77. If an average of 61 is obtained for the quarter, the department would be entitled to another teacher. In the circumstances he thought application should be made at once for an additional teacher. This course was approved. Accommodation at present is fully taxed, and an extra room is urgently desired. It was suggested that the Technical School might be used on three days each week.

BUS LICENSING NO. 2 AUTHORITY MEETS The No. 2 Bus Licensing Authority met at Devonport last evening:. The Marine Suburbs Bus Company at Birkenhead invited it to "express its view” on the question of competition from taxis. The bus company claimed to be losing money while the taxis skimmed the cream of the traffic. Copies of recent legal pronouncements were also submitted showing that motorcars might be classed as buses under the bus regulations. In view of the career of the previous No. 2 Authority and the litigation under the regulations the licensing authority declined to express any view until it has had legal advice. SPORTSMAN’S DEATH FORMER AUCKLAND RESIDENT The death occurred at Taumarunui of a well-known and highly respected member of the local Public Works Staff, in the person of Mr. Samuel Fittall, at the age of 57 years. The deseased gentleman had been an inmate of the local hospital for the pa; t few weeks, with an iyness which unfortunately took such toll of his vitality that it proved fatal. A wife and four children, two sons and two daughters, are left to mourn the loss of a loved husband and father. Mr. Fittall had been in Taumarunui for the past six years, having come here from Auckland, and had been in the Public Works Department employ for over 16 years. He at one time held the rank of captain in the Takaka (kelson) Mounted Rifles, and after a period of storekeeping acquired the Takaka paper, which he edited and managed with considerable success for some years under the title of “The Golden Bay News.” He was President of the Takaka Racing Club secretary of the Takaka Cricket Club, a Past Arch Druid, and A Past Chief Ranger of the Ancient Order of Foresters. The interment is taking place in the Taumarunui cemetery. DEVONPORT DRAINAGE MEASURES TO COMPLETE SYSTEM Last evening’s meeting of the Devonport Borough Council was attended by Messrs. Aldridge (Mayor), Browne, H. Campbell, T. Enright, W. S. Campbell, I. Lyon, F. J. Ellisdon and T. Walsh. The question of completing the drainage of North Devonport is to be put in hand now that Takapuna Borough is completing the St. Leonard’s outfall for its drainage system. Dev-

onport has the right to use this outfall, and has money available for the work, which has long been waiting completion. The audited balance sheet for 192627 was tabled; a small “tag” related to payments on account of lire brigade matters which should have been adjusted in the book-keeping. The necessity for more adequate provision for the public on Cheltenham Beach was referred to a subcommittee. Messrs. Ellisdon, Walsh. Lyon and H. Campbell. The Mayor was appointed delegate to the Municipal Conference at Nelson next month. Cr. Ellisdon raised the question of sending two delegates which the council had power to send. The Mayor considered that as the town clerk would be at Nelson at the same time attending the Town Clerks’ Association meeting, he could act as second delegate. Cr. Ellisdon thought that it was hardly the proper thing. Cr. Browne: Presumably the conference is for the purpose of distributing information; the clerk is a fixture, but councillors are birds of passage; it might be better to let the town clerk get the information. The subject was adjourned. The Marine Department intimated that since the Harbour Foard was framing a by-law to control the movements of shipping in the ferry basin, there was no need of action by the Department. At the request of the Harbour Board a red beacon is to mark the end of the sewer outlet at Narrow Neck. A complaint that pine trees in O’Neill’s Cemetery were keeping a grave monument in the shade was not supported by the Mayor and it was stated that tombstones all over the cemetery showed discolouration as a result of climatic conditions. The council declined to cut down the trees. WEDNESDAY HOLIDAY HOWICK TOWN BOARD’S DECISION Mr. J. Crawford presided at the first meeting of the Howick Town Board, since the Christmas vacation, on Tuesday evening, when it was decided that the statutory half-holiday for the district would be held on Wednesday. It was decided to instruct the engineer to prepare plans and specifications for submission to the Public Works Department for the purpose of putting the wharf in a safe condition. The request from the board for permission to raise the loan for the building of the Town Board offices is being considered by the Loans Board, and they will forward their decision on February 15. The enforcement of the Public Works Act regarding the eradication of noxious weeds was decided on, and the board is calling tenders for the clearing of its reserves. Building permits issued during January totalled £1,250. An application was received from a number of ratepayers for the temporary supply of water during the present drought. The members of the board expressed their regret, as there was no water supply handy.

OLD PIONEER’S DEATI CANTERBURY AND WAIKAiw The death occurred on Tuesday at Hamilton, of Mr. Benjamin Corlett. a pioneer sheep-farmer of Canterbury and Waikato. Mr. Corlett was born in Manchester in 1594. and landed in Lyttelton in one of the three colonist's ships in 1851. He held a sheep station in Canterbury until 1908. and then came north with his family, finally settling at Te Wawhia, Waikato, where he has been farming: ever since. Mr. Corlett was one of the first settlers to bring the English Leicester into Canterbury. He leaves a widow and ten children. TRUCK DAMAGED HAPPENINGS AT TE KUITI As a result of being struck by a line of trucks which were being shunted in the Te Kuiti railway yards on Tuesday, a truck standing near a stop block was badly damaged. It was forced partly over the block and the end of the nearby goods shed was stove in. The truck came to rest neatly balanced on the block, which was partly dislodged from its foundation. The baths committee has decided to adopt an amended and more economical scheme for the construction of a swimming weir, tenders for which close on Saturday jiext The Te Kuiti Defence Rifle Club held the final shoot for the Mrs. Mostyn Jones’s Cup on Saturday last. Rifleman J. H. Blackburn proved the winner, scoring 354 points in the series of matches. Despite the very hazy weather conditions. Rifleman Blackburn scored one off possible at 300yds, and 49 at 600yds, with 12 shots. The scores of the leading men in the competition were: Blackburn, 354; Palmer, 352; Turner, 344; and Evans, 309. At the conclusion of the Te KuitiTe Awamutu bowling matches on Saturday, the president of the club, Mr. Crawford Boles, and the Mayor of Te Kuiti, Mr. W. J. Broadfoot, took the opportunity of bidding farewell to Mr. L. G. Armstrong, Mayor of Te Awamutu, on the eve of his departure for England as a member of the representative bowlers’ team. WISE ENCOURAGEMENT SWIMMING AT TE AWAMUTU At the meeting of the Te Awamutu High School Committee it was stated that the cost of the improvements to the grounds at the main school was £2O. The whole cost was £54 Cs, but the board contributed £34. The board would not contribute any more subsidy for asphalting for another three years. Forty-five of the scholars had indicated their intention of competing for the prizes offered by the committee for diligence in teaching the younger ones to swim. It is estimated that there are r.bout 100 small children desirous o:

learning the art. The 45 old would each choose a smaller instruct at once. CI U3<I It was left to the headmaster cretion as to what school home’ dlJto be observed during ** r * The sum of £1 was voted »’ secondary department s librarv \ subsidy can be obtained 00 J * * Mr. G. S. Clarke presided ~ „ meeting, and others present bi, Mrs. Mr. H. Wood. Messrs. G F " A. A. Reese. A. G. Weather*!! Tailby. G. O. Jourdain, and the v master. Mr. J. F. Roberts. hea^. HERD-TESTING KAITIEKE ASSOCIATION Tne Kaitieke Herd-Testing Assor ation. which is under the superb?' of Mr. T. L. Miller, records the folw 1 ing figures for the month of JanuaryNumber of herds. 66: numtw " cows, 1.396. Association averages: 1 595 8411 b. milk. 35.571 b. butter-fat--3.9 per cent. ’ ***• Highest herd: Eight cows milk. 48.731 b. butter-fat; test.’ -.- cent. Lowest herd: Sixteen cow* milk, 21.511 b. butter-fat; test,’ 3 g*’ cent. Highest cow: Milk 1,3351 b Urn*. butter-fat; test. 4.8 per centT *** Lowest cow: Milk 1351 b., 5.401 h v . rer-fat; test, 4 per cent. ' TANTALISING CLOUDS TREE PLANTATIONS PARCHED Really solid rain is still urgemv needed in Te Aroha and its immedi,.. country environs. The country a, triets are badly parched and notw can possibly save the crops unw tho dry spell breaks before the cw of this week. Heavy clouds, the seemed to guarantee rain and th« broke up and allowed a swelterS sun to do more damage, have been tantalising farmers and townspeople alike for weeks, but still the dry (Ml holds unchallenged sway. The position is a little better in the outlying districts toward Morrins ville, Xgarua, Springdale and Elston-1 where heavy rain, in Xgarua. almost a cloudburst, has been experienced In Xgarua three inches of rain feu h, one night this week and saved eropa filled tanks to overflowing, and quenched the thirst of many dyiaa pastures. This downpour penetrated the ground to more than two feet u places. Further damage has been reported due to the drought in the tree plantations in the districts. The mortality among the seedlings has been Ten considerable. On the other hand the drought has done a great deal of good for the tomato crops In the district which are very heavy and the market should he a better one than that of last year particularly as the dry weather appears to have pfoved fatal to m-ty of the pests.