The Te Puke Times FRIDAY, SEPT. 16, 1932

Te Puke Times, 16 September 1932, Page 2

The Te Puke Times FRIDAY, SEPT. 16, 1932

The annual meeting of the Te Puke A. and P. Association will be held in the Town Board Office at 1 o’clock to-morrow (Saturday), The Farmers Union will hold a meeting in the same place in the evening.

Mr F. R. Howard, sight-testing specialist, representing Messrs Barry and Beale of 322 Queen Street Auckland, will visit Te Puke on Tuesday next, 20tb finst., Instead of on Tuesday 27th inst. as previously announced.

A sale of fruit and shelter trees will be held at the rear of • the N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Co’s premises, at 10.30 a.m. on Tuesday next, 20th September. This will be the last sale of the season, so that all who wish to secure shrubs, hedge trees or fruit trees, should make a point of attending. The St. John’s Bible Class intends holding a concert and dance in the Parish Hall on Wednesday October 5. Those who were present at the entertainment last year will have pleasant recollections of the amusing programme provided, and will no doubt extend their patronage to the forthcoming concert.

A very jolly evening was spent in Mr J. (J. Saunders’ shed, No 2 Road last night, when a party was held to celebrate the birthdays of Mrs Saunders, Nurse Shepherd and Mr C. Bradford. iThe gathering numbered between 60 and 70 and time passed rapidly with dances, songs and games. Music was provided by Mesdames Xnnes, Fagan and Chapman’s Orchestra and a very appetising supper, at which the birthday oake was cut, was supplied by the ladies, “Auld Larig Syne” Was sung prior to the assemblage dispersing,

At a meeting of the Committee of the TaUranga Land Settlement League on Saturday last, Mr Stephens, one of the members said the Poripori Block between Whakamarama and the Wairoa River at the baok of Minden, was a suitable area for settlement. He submitted a scheme for settling, by leasing, say, ten or thirteen settlers on a block of thirteen hundred acres of native land known as the Poripori Block between the Ngamuawahine and Boulder Bridges on both sides of the Kaimai main highway, about fifteen miles from Tauranga, The meeting deoided to submit Mr Stephens’ scheme to the Prime Minister aud the Minister for Lands for favourable consideration.