WAITAHUNA.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VI, Issue 274, 1 May 1873, Page 6

WAITAHUNA.

(From our own Correspondent.)

All the claims in the Main Gully are in fnll work, the rain in the latter end of the past week having augmented the water supply, and rendered it ample, for all purposes. The quarterly meeting of the Waitahuna School Committee was held on the 11 th ult. Members present : Messrs. Dunn, Phillipsf Bushe, M'Taggart, Moggath, and Garden. A return was furnished by the teacher, Mr. Clark, showing a balance due of fees for the quarter amounting to about L 6. This, added to the arrears for the year 1872, makes the total amount due for the time named L 49. Several acoounts were presented, and, when the question of how they were to be paid was raised, it was suggested that the Committee should sue some of those persons who had allowed their school fees to fall in arrear, as ten per cent, of the moneys collected would become the property of the Committee. Ultimately, it was resolved to allow the matter to stand over for a week, in order to obtain a full meeting of members if possible. On the 18th the Committee again met, when the Secretary was instructed to forward accounts to some eight or ten persons, with the intimation that unless they paid the same on or before the 3rd prox., legal proceedings would be taken against them. Whether they will endeavour to make any arrangement I know not ; but I think it would be wise of them to obey. The Secretary was directed to write to the Rev. J. H. Cameron on the subject of delivering-a lecture in aid of the school funds. I have since heard that the rev. gentleman will, in complience with the request of the Committee, deliver a lecture in the Athenaeum here, on Monday, the sth May. Great dissatisfaction exists here with regard jto the manner in which the depasturing affairs of the district have for some time past been managed. Several influential residents have taken the matter in hand, and a meeting, to consider the snbject in all its bearings, has been called for an early date, a report of which I will try and supply you with. The road through the Main Gully is completed, and will prove a great boon to the residents. At Ilavelock, several of the claims are reported as paying the shareholders from four to five pounds per week per man. A fifty share in Hayes and party's claim was sold last week for L 55 ; while a sixth share in the Waipori claim, which has the name of being the best paying claim in the district, was recently sold for £35.