The Te Puke Times FRIDAY, JUNE 16, 1833 Local And General
At the last meeting of the Opotiki Connty Council Cr Martin gave notice that he proposed to move at uext meeting that the clerk’s salary be reduced to £350 per annum, and that of the engineer to £325 per annum. Tenders aro invited by the Department of Agriculture in this issue for the ploughing of land In the Pongakawa Valley in areas of fifty aorea or more. Tenders will close at noon on Saturday. June 24th, with Mr G. Walker, Agricultural Instructor, Te Puke, froth whom full particulars may ba obtained.
The. Awakeri School, Which had recently bCan enlarged and modernised, was Completely destroyed by fire at an early hour on Tuesday morning. Arrangements have been made for Carrying on school work in the AWakeri Hall, and the Education Board has been askes to supply the necessary equipment.
The Tauranga Cooperative Dairy Association, Ltd. will pay to suppliers on the 20th inst. ?d per lb, for butterfat of finest quality supplied during the month of May, The Company will also make an additional payment for March supply of 2|d per lb and for April supply of Id per lb bringing the payments for each of those months to 7d per lb. Tho Farmers Auctioneering Co advertise particulars of two clearing sales to be luid at an early date. One is on account of Mr Frederickson, whoso stock will be sold in the Te Puke yards, on June 27th and the other on account of Mr C. Turner, Maniatut,U Road, whose dairy herd, horses, implements, etc., will be submitted on the farm on Friday, June 30.
’■Ragwort will run itself out,” declared Mr J. W. Anderson, chairman of the Matamata County Council, at recent ragwort conference. "The KaiIttais 20 years ago was ono mass of ragwort, but there is Very little to-day." Other councillors agreed that ragwort thrived Wore on topdrossed Country than on fern and scrub land, t'ho trouble la that the ragwort will turn the settlers outbei'oro it itoelf Succumbs,
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Te Puke Times, 16 June 1933, Page 2
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