LOCAL ITEMS

Te Aroha News, Volume XLI, Issue 6422, 1 December 1923, Page 1

LOCAL ITEMS

The Hons. R. F. Bollard and W. Nosworthy are expected to reach Te Aroha on Monday. It is understood that a number of deputations are being arranged to meet them here in reference to important local requirements.

It is hoped that Mr Reid, the headmaster of the Waikino school, who was one of the victims of the Waikino shooting tragedy, will be sufficiently recovered from his wounds as to permit him being present at the service on Sunday evening in the Theatre Royal.

It was decided that a special meeting of the Elstow Drainage Board be called for December 21st to strike the rates to be collected for the ensuing year. It was further arranged that the ordinary meetings be held every four weeks from the next ordinary meeting to be held on January 24th.

The Whangamata correspondent of the Waihi Telegraph informs that paper by telephone that a rumour is in circulation there and at Tairua that the murderer of Mrs Margaret E. Oates, the victim of the Aramoho (Wanganui) tragedy, is in hiding in the district and that a number of detectives are scouring the country in search of the criminal. The settlers are sdid to be considerably perturbed by the rumour.

Building operations at Te Aroha are becoming more extensive, and provision has been made for the allotment of more residential sites within the borough. Three blocks of land situated in the suburb of Herriesville have been purchased respectively by Messrs Mackie and Sons, J. Loughlin and R. Sprague, and it is the intention of the new owners to subdivide these lands into residential sections. The total area represents about 30 acres. Three up-to-date brick shops are to be erected for Messrs Lovegrove Bros., of Auckland, to take the plac'e of the old wooden structures in Whitaker street, which were recently destroyed by fire.

“The ladybird is plentiful on the streams at present and forms a good supply of food for the trout, making them diffident about rising to the fly,” said a prominent local angler last week. Thus, he added, the fishing at present was only moderately good, but as was the usual experience it should improve later. The fish then should also be fat. The same angler landed 20 trout from the Waihou in three hours’ fishing during the week-end, the largest of which weighed about l|lb. Mr Moses Phillips of Waotu, reports that in “spoon” fishing up the Waikato river from Waotu this week he secured 27 fish ranging in weight up to 5Mb. —Record.