PUTARURU.

Waikato Times, Volume 98, Issue 15320, 22 August 1923, Page 6

PUTARURU.

The Arapunl Quarry. The work of opening up the quarry from which the metal for tho concrete, etc., to bo used for tho Arapunl scheme is to be obtained is now in hand, a special gang of six men arriving on Thursday to undertake the work. Several moro men are to he sent later to augment the gang. The quarry is several miles up stream from tho Arapiuii dam site, and it is understood that somo of tho metal from it will be used In metalling portion of the new access road being formed to Arapunl from Putaruru. Music Successes. The recent pianoforte examinations at Hamilton, conducted by Mr Madlinson, the song composer, in his capacity ns examiner this year for the Trinity Collego of Music, marked the first occasion in which a Putaruru music teacher presented pupils for theso standard tests. Tho pupils wero Misses Madge Sayers and Gwen Ashford, and they both secured good passes In tho upper Intermediate division. Over tho Waikato. The definite pronouncement by tho Minister for Public Works, tho Hon. J. G. Coates, that tho permanent main road crossing of the Waikato River, between Putaruru and To Awamutu, will be the top of the Arapunl dam. with a temporary low-level bridge and approaches provided further down stream, while the dam is being built, is an important one for Putaruru, for it means a considerable extension of the territory for which tho town will he the most accessible ■ .rail and

shopping Wharepuhunga, Pukeatua, and Maungatautari districts, all on the far side of the river from Putaruru, and at present having Te Awamutu and Cambridge as the chief outlets, will be brought by the dam crossing and the new access road to Arapuni within much easier distance of Putaruru, and already a conference is being arranged between the settlers of those parts with the Public Works Engineer and their country engineers to formulate a definite project for the opening of roads to give access to the dam crossing on their side of the river. The Metalling Scheme. Little time is being lost in starting the work under the Putaruru-Tokoroa roads metalling scheme now that the first £SOOO is to hand. The Tirau road contract, covering the length from the Orakau bridge to the Putaruru Post Office, and for which £IOOO of the loan and £IOOO Government subsidy is allocated, is to be resumed immediately the weather is fine enough, while to-morrow Cr. K. S. Cox (Tokoroa Riding) is to accompany the county engineer, Mr Fitzgerald, over the Lichfield Road preparatory to calling tenders for the quarrying of local rock for the foundation metalling of this road.