RAHOTU.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 144853, 3 December 1915, Page 8

RAHOTU.

rgeu oob own COKEEarOKDENa, Nov. 30.—A meeting was held in the Parihaka Road Board’s office on Wednesday evening, the 24th, for the purpose of giving the men a send off who leave the district for the front in future. In the past some of the boys have been farewollcd, some left in the cold, and a committee was elected whose duty is to see that each shall have a pleasant evening before leaving the district. The committee are: Messrs! T. P. Hughson (chairman), A. F. Chapman, W. C. Green, L. Fischer, J. Williamson, J. A. Cornier, G. Gibson, A. Williams, W. R. Wright, H. Stonex, J. B. Groom, C. Penwarden, and T. W. Feathorston (secretary), also a ladies’ committee of Mesdames Wright, Col mer, and Dawson. Several of the com mittce have lists, and as the subscrip lions are limited to half a crown, the canvassers are not getting any refusals. The tea in aid ot the Wounded Soldiers’ Fund was provided by Mesdames Baker, sen.. Mouldy, Ward and Fischer, on the 35th, when the sum of £5 Is was taken. The tea a fortnight previons’y was provided by Mesdames Looney. M'Lean, Minncar and-Miss Taylor, and Mrs. Illingsworth, who trained the children, gave a concert, assisted by some local talent, and after the concert a dance, when about £2O was taken. There is a good deal of talk in the district just at present about the Road Board installing what some people term a private road at the Oaonui Factory, but they do not seem to understand the position. When the company acquired the property they got the land surveyed into a number of sections, and a road was laid off to give access to the sections behind the store, - The company took stops to have the road made a public road and approached the Road Beard, The board did the work possibly before notice appeared in the gazette. The company also asked the council to help the infant and also gave £4. I do not know if it is such a great item to talk about after all, for the whole thhig only cost £33 13s, made up as follows:—Road Board share £lB 13s, Egment County £4. T. P. Hughson and Sons £l. When ' touching on road boards and counties the writer was a great advocate of merging the road board into the council, but having recently done a trip over some of the byroads under the administration of the Egmont County, they will have to do something better for the Oeo settlers before they could ask the settlers in Rahotu to join them. It is a matter of half-fly half-drive travelling along an Egmont County by-road. Ido not know who is to blame, the county or bad. indifferent workmen; possibly i both. Should at any time a petition be put before a- settler, let him just ask | a Pihama settler 'what the county by- j roads are like. i