RAGLAN.

Waikato Times, Volume LV, Issue 6631, 1 February 1905, Page 3

RAGLAN.

Fkoh our Own Correspondent. The opening service and tea meeting in connection with the new church at Okete took plac" on Monday. January 23rd, and was a decided success in every respect. It was a beautiful summer's day, and friends gathered from all parts of the district to be present. Tea was ready at five o'clock in the afternoon, but it was eight o'clock at night before all had finished, so many were there to cater for. Mr T. B. Hill occupied the chair at the after meeting, the programme for which consisted of speeche=, interspersed with vocal selections by several ladies and gentlemen. The speakers were:—Revs. Mitchell (Kawhia) and Carr (Raglan), Messrs Hill, J. N. Pegler, W. H. Lyon and Smeeton ; and the singers : Mrs Husband, Miss Dent. Messrs Archer, Houcheu, Hamilton, H. Matthew and Bate. The statement was made by one of the speakers that the church and contents had cost .£305, of which sum £ll7 had been Collected in the district, and that there still remained to be cleared off a debt of £7O. On the following night Mr Fleming, travelling agent for the New Zealand Alliance, addressed a meeting in the Congiejjatimal Church, and held forth on the evils of the liquor traffic and the benefits of prohibition. At the close of his address it was resolved, on the motion of Mr Watkins, of Te Uku, who claimed to have been the founder of the prohibition movement at Ashburton, where " no-license " is in force, " that a branch of the No-License League be formed at Raglan." A committee and officers were elected to further the movement with a view to influencing the "free and independent" to strike out the top line " at next election.The arrangements for the Agricultural Show are being pushed ahead. There was sjme hope of the A. and P. Association receiving a present of the material of which the but-ouce-used sale yards at Te Uku are constructed, several of the subscribers to the cost of their erection having expressed a willingness to hand them over for removal to Raglan for show purposes, but it has been decreed otherwise, and the Association has to face the expense of timber for the pens. It is estimated that, exclusive of labour in erecting, which will probably be supplied by working bees, £SO at least will be required. The hat is going round, and about half the sum has so far been promised. Mr " Mike " Galvan and his lady had a spill from their gig in Raglan on Saturday, the vehicle overturpmg and pitching them into the roadway, one on top of the other. Mr Galvan, who had the lower berth, got his shoulder put out, but Mrs Galvan, through alighting in a soft place, escaped unhurt. Dr. Sanders soon got the dislocation right, and Mr Galvan will shortlv be himself again. It wasn't the fault of the roads this time, but the too sudden turn of a comer, which caused the accident. The Te Mata people have agreed to divide the expenditure of the £IOOO loan for road works a3 follows: —Metalling the worst places on the road from Mold's to Mr Galvan's, via Kaoroa road, as far as the junction of the Kaoroa-Pakoka road £6OO, this sum providing for the renewal of what is known as Oldham's bridge ; Hutewai road £75, Kaoroa-Pakoka £75, Falls road £25, Te Mata-Ruapuke road £IOO, and Kaoroa road to east of Price's junction JEI2S. The milk supply is keeping up well at the Te Mata factory, and the cheques for December's milk are much higliei than fjr the same time last year. There are now 25 suppliers. The tests are as high as 41, Mr Bankart heading the list. A contract has been let to Mr Geo. Wallace for filling in the holes and clearing out the water-tables on the main road between Raglan and Ma. agatawhiri, where numerous vehicles have come to grief lately in the efforts of thek drivers to negotiate the obstacles to traffic. Messrs Collins and Butler have obtained the contract for carting the road metal from the Three Streams, and a few of the worst portions of the road will be made fit for winter in good time,