OTOROHANGA NEWS

Waipa Post, Volume 42, Issue 3263, 21 February 1931, Page 5

OTOROHANGA NEWS

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

DISTRICT HAPPENINGS.

(Our Resident Representative.) The Maoris of this district promoted a most successful dance last night in aid of the earthquake sufferers. The demand for pigs of dairymen was again active at yesterday's local auctions, although values fell somewhat below those ruling last week. The committee set up by the Waitomo Power Board to investigate the position regarding minimum charge accounts in the Town Board area now recommend that boundaries be decided on for the application of a 5s minimum monthly charge; consumers outside the area to pay the monthly minimum charge of 10s. Since the inception of the Otorohanga County 47 special loans have been raised, totalling £30,175, and of this sum £11,275 has been raised privateiy, thus saving procuration fees. During the current financial year 20 loans are in operation, which it considered a record compared with other counties. The clerical work in connection with loan moneys has grown to heavy proportions, and it was for this reason that the council, at its last meeting, refused to consider a reduction in the salary of the clerk and staff. The local Government Loan's Board have referred back a loan proposal of £IOO for the Pukemapou special rating area, holding that the full 58 chains of road should be metalled instead of the 40 chains proposed. Although the local consolidated school has actually two.teachers less than last year, the Education Board is not granting the committee's request for an additional teacher in the primary department, notwithstandng the increase in the roll from 386 to 394.

Mr W. Snaith, the prominent Otorohanga draper, has disposed of his extensive business to Mr Kinnear Smith. Mr J. H. S. Saunderson for many years established here as a chemist has, owing to continued ill health, sold his business.

Mr A. Fleming, local manager of the late N. F. GoodalPs drapery establishment, has now purchased the business and modernised the premises and stocks.

Dairymen here consider that this is a wonderful season for butter-fat production, and that the present output is little short of the peak production of early January.