HAWERA COUNTY CONTROL

Taranaki Daily News, 6 August 1934, Page 8

HAWERA COUNTY CONTROL

MONTHLY MEETING OF COUNCIL. PROGRESS OF TANGAHOE WORK. Satisfactory progress on the Tangahoe hill deviation work was reported at the monthly meeting cf the Hawera County C< uncil on Saturday. Those present were Crs. J. B. Murdoch (in the chair), T. A. Winks, W. Rothery, J. Lander, A. G. Larcom, A. E. Leath, E. A. 'Washer, C. J. Preston and J. W. J. Harding (county clerk). Lysaght Road had keen metalled with crushed stone for fifty chains, reported Mr. A. Muggeridge (engineer), ten .chains having been done from Batten’s pit. The road was being rounded and rolled, some of the dust being used for blending and the work would be finished early this week. As soon as the roller was available Whareroa Road would be scarified and crushed metal would be applied where required. Ohangai Road from Ketemarae Road had the gaps in the metal joined up as far as Mr. Hair’s gate. One portion of the old metal had to be renewed as it was practically worn out. A start would be made next week with Whakatau Road, where ■ there was about 15 chains to be done. Maben Road was being widened where required. The cuttings at the Tangahoe deviation were proceeding satisfactorily. A start higher up the. hill would have to be made as there was no more room to tip the soil until the piers of the bridge were up. With the new face all the spoil would have to be. carted across the road by lorry. There were 5000 yards to be disposed of. The cutting on the Hawera side of the river was causing no trouble regarding the disposal of spoil. A statement of receipts and expenditure for 1933-34 was received from the Normanby Town Board, being required, explained Cr. Murdoch, for consideration of what subsidy the council would pay the board for work on main highways. The statement w:s received, the chairman stating that it did not make clear how £132 17s sd, the item for repairs and improvements, had been expended. A deputation requesting the council to give a trial to benzine supplies controlled by English and New Zealand capital was heard and the matter discussed later. The engineer expressed himself as satisfied with the present service and supply, and although councillors thought the suggestion of a three months’ trial might be adopted, it was decided not to make any move in the matter. DEATH OF OLD RESIDENT. MRS. C. E. C. SARGENT, HAWERA. After residing at Hawera for 40 years and in New Zealand for 56 years, a respected and highly popular resident of Hawera and South Taranaki, Mrs. Catherine Elizabeth Cornelia Sargent died at Hawera on Friday at the age of 82 years. Although failing for the last year of her life, Mrs. Sargent’s death followed a brief illness.

Born in Demerara, British Guiana, where her father was superintendent of the main hospital, Mrs. Sargent’s early life was spent in England and Germany, where studies of music and her travels made her an excellent performer and an accomplished linguist. She returned to Demerara in 1870, was married in 1872, and after living with her husband . and family for some time in British Guiana, made the change to New Zealand. The Sargents settled first at Cambridge and after ten years moved on to Hawera.

Both Mr. and Mrs. Sargent were keenly interested in the work of the Presbyterian Church and Mrs. Sargent in earlier years was also a noted worker in Masonic lodge social affairs at Hawera. She is survived by two daughters— Mrs. Ivor John, New Plymouth, and Miss C. Sargent, ■ Auckland—as well as by six sons, Messrs. F. W. Sargent, Auckland, C. H. Sargent, Hawera, F. D. Sargent, Christchurch, E. A. Sargent, Wellington, J. A. Sargent, Nelson, and R. A. Sargent, Hawera. Another son, George Sargent, was killed in the Great War a month before the Armistice was signed. The 18 grandchildren include Mr. J. D. Sargent, M.Sc., Massey College, Palmerston North. Five of Mrs. Sargent’s sons were on active service during the Great War. Harold served with the Australian Mining Corps, Dick with the Main Body, N.Z.E.F., Fred with the 15th Reinforcements, George with the 21st, and Edward with the British Forces. PERSONAL ITEMS. Mr. J. B. Murdoch has been appointed Hawera County Council delegate to a meeting to elect a representative of local bodies on the Hawera Technical High School Board of Managers. The vacancy was caused by the automatic retirement of Mr. L. A. Jennings, who is eligible for re-election. Votes of condolence with Mr. G. H. Looney and Mr. M. Brophy in bereavements sustained during the year were passed at the annual meeting of Pihama Dairy Company shareholders on Saturday.