DISTRICT PARS

Te Aroha News, Volume XIXXX, Issue 6373, 2 August 1923, Page 1

DISTRICT PARS

Arrangements in connection with the anniversary dance which is,to be held at Mangaiti on Wednesday, Bth inst., are now well forward.

The Te Aroha Gun Club will hold a shoot on the racecourse on Saturday next at 1.30 p.m. To intending members is extended a special welcome.

The New Zealand Co-operative Dairy Company in this issue calls tenders for the unloading of coal at the Waitoa factory.

As from Saturday Mr 11. Jackson's mart sales will commence at 12 noon. This week’s offering of goods is both extensive and varied.

Owing to the prevalence of so much sickness the elocutionary and vocal recital to have been submitted in the Masonic Hall on Saturday next, August 4th, the function has been postponed until the 11th instant.

Tenders are called by the New Zealand Co-operative Dairy Company for the cartage of whole milk from Te Kauana Road, Bowlers’ Road and Tui Pa. Tenders close August 14. Full particulars are advertised in this issue.

It is with regret that we record the death of Myra (“Peggy”), the eight-year-old daughter of Mr and Mrs Horace Rowbotham, of Elstow. Death took place about mid-day on Tuesday, after an illness extending over a period of about four weeks.

Mi 1 Chapman, secretary of the local branch of the St. John Ambulance Association, informs us that the profit made out of the recent Ambulance Ball amounted to £4B/11/-, including a sum of £l3/4/0 given as donations, £5/6/- of the latter being subscribed at Te Aroha West.

A brief meeting of the Chamber of Commerce was held on Tuesday evening when those present were Messrs R. Coulter (in chair), T. Stanley, 0. M. Samuel, W. J. Moore, W. W. Maingay, W. Revell, D. ‘McMahon, A. D. Macdonald and A. H. Caudwell. Through unfortunate circumtsances the president (Mr C. Andrew) and the secretary (Mr T. Venables) were absent.

An objection was made by Mr T. Stanley at the Chamber of Commerce meeting on Tuesday to the planting of trees and shrubs along the 15ft. footpath in Lipsey-street and Ken-rick-street. “When I was on the council, we went to considerable expense in widening that footpath for the use of excursionists who come to Te Aroha, and now the street is being narrowed again as a result of the planting of trees,” said Mr Stanley. Pie then asked who was responsible. Mr Coulter said the Borough Council was responsible, not the Beautifying Society. All but one of the trees, however, had died, and it now rested with the Council whether they replanted them on the footpath or not. Mr Coulter said, as far as he personally was concerned, he was never enthusiastic about trees being planted on the footpath.