KAWHIA NOTES

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 72, Issue 6238, 5 June 1946, Page 6

KAWHIA NOTES

IN AND ABOUT THE TOWNSHIP NOXIOUS WEEDS: BAD ROADS (From a Kawhia Correspondent) The ladies of the Womfen’s Division of the Farmers’ Union have been once again at work parking parcels of food for Britain. If all the branches did as well as the local branch a special ship would have to be chartered to convey the parcels to the Homeland. There are still several sections in the township with gorse growing luxuriantly on them, and although the plants look pretty gorse happens to be a noxious weed. The inspector has lately been round the farms in the Raglan area giving the farmers a specified period in which to clean up their road frontages, and here we have noxious weeds growing in the middle of the town. During the latter end of the recent wet weather a small car skidded on the famed Waiwera Street hill; it came down backward and slid across the road, side on. Fortunately, the vehicle did not overturn. As a temporary measure a little non-skid material might be the means of preventing a bad accident. The Town Board cannot be expected to do much in the matter; that body has no funds to undertake large-scale metalling work, and that is what is needed. The Board members must be very concerned, and some of them would be pleased to see the town under control of the Kawhia County Council, which would be economic and sensible. But it is for the Town Board to make the first move in that direction, for the residents fully appreciate its difficulties and sympathise with the members in their hopeless impasse. The danger from the use of benzine lamps will soon be a thing of the past, so it is believed here, for Te Awamutu Electric Power Board is certainly one public body that would like to see Kawhia served with electricity. A resident had a rather nasty accident recently when using a benzine lamp; flesh burns were caused, and some damage to property done. The weather here has been glorious for the last few days, and the rain has been forgotten. Winter in Kawhia has no terrors.