LOCAL ITEMS

Te Aroha News, Volume XLI, Issue 6441, 22 January 1924, Page 1

LOCAL ITEMS

It was agreed on the motion of Cr. Whitechurch at the Piako County Council yesterday to prospect the Ta-huna-Ohinewai Quarry and to ascertain the amount of metal available.

Members of the Te Aroha Cycling and Athletic Club are particularly asked to attend the annual meeting to be held in the News Office at 8 p.m. on Monday, 28th January, 1924.

It was agreed by the Piako County Council that a traffic tally be taken next Saturday on Stanley Road. Two of the Council’s employees will be engaged in making the tally. All vehicles driven will have to pull up in response to the red flag and give particulars necessary.

Messrs O’Donoghue Bros., Waihou, wrote to the Piako County Council, which met yesterday, asking that a frontage be given to their properties on the Te Aroha West side. The road desired rims along what is known as the Main Drain. The Council left the matter to Cr. Kennedy and the engineer, Mr W. J. Gibbs, to attend to.

Nominations are invited by advertisement in this issue for the directorate of the Farmers’ Co-operative Auctioneering Company, Ltd. Nominations close at the registered office of the Company, Victoria Street, Hamilton*, at 5 p.m. on Friday, February 15t,'1924. Messrs Walter Seavill and William Carr Rollett retire by rotation and are eligible for re-elec-tion.

It was decided by the Piako County Council yesterday to cancel the present contract in connection with the Walton roads loan arid to call tenders for that portion from the surfaceman’s house to the Railway station. It was also decided to call tenders for the Wairere settlement roads. It was agreed that, as soon as money is available for the Walton Central Loan that the metal be procured and a contract let. Councillor Kennedy was asked by a Morrinsville councillor at the Piako County Council meeting yesterday if he had seen a letter in the Morrinsville Star reflecting upon his action in proposing an increase in the engineer’s salary. Cr. Kennedy replied: “I don’t see the Morrinsville Star, I read a decent paper—the Te Aroha News.” Even Morrinsville councillors joined in the laugh against themselves.

The hay crops this year are generally lighter than is generally the case. This is accounted for by the exceptionally wet ,winter and late spring. Mr F. W. Walters told a Te Aroha News representative yesterday that his hay crops were decidedly lighter than last year. He was just completing getting in the last of 200 acres. He had only 20 odd stacks this year whereas he had over 30 stacks last year. “I was told, to-day, that the Piako County Council is too fond of going outside of Te Aroha for certain requirements, such as cement and benzine,” said Cr. Kennedy at the Piako County Council yesterday. Mr Gibbs, the engineer, explained that he had obtained local quotations for cement and benzine and it was after he had obtained these quotations that he decided to purchase outside of Te Aroha as he could obtain these things at a cheaper price, even after freight, etc., had been paid. The decline in the butter-fat yields as compared with last season was commented on by Mr F. W. Walters yesterday in a conversation with a representative of the Te Aroha News. Mr Walters stated that his total but-ter-fat yield in September was 1700 lbs less than in the previous season. For November 1923 it was 700 lbs less than for November 1922. He, however, thought that his returns for December would show to better advantage than those for the previous two months. This year’s shortage was due, Mr Walters stated, to the wet winter and late spring. The grass this season had not the body in it that it ought to have owing largely to the excessive rain in winter minimising the usual beneficial effect of the manure put on in autumn.