TAIHAPE NOTES.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1864, 25 September 1913, Page 10

TAIHAPE NOTES.

A cricket club has been formed at TJtiku, and it is intended that a ball be held oil Friday in aid of the pitch fund. Since tho middlo of August, 10,000 brown trout fry and 20,000 rainbow fry have been placed in tho district streams. The Wellington Acclimatisation Society, since tho formation of the Taihape branch 2£ years ago, has supplied 100,000 trout fry. It is expected that, owing to so much stocking, anglers in this part of tho society's district will bo confined to tho artificial'fly and minnow during the season, which opens on October 1.

Mr. H. Duncan and another occupant of a gig met with a mishap on tho road between Taihape and Wamui on Monday. They had stopped on tho roadside, when the horso shook the blinkers off, and galloped along the road. As tho animal could not bo pulled up, both occupants jumped out, and sustained no' injury. Th'o horse and gig went over a very, steep bank further down tho road. . Tho gig was badly smashed, but the horso was nono tho worso for a fall of several feet, which was broken by somo loose earth, which had been thrown over the cliff during road repair work._ Several other mishaps have occurred in this locality, and the general opinion is that tho road would be safer if protective fencing was erected. Fat sheep are bringing very good prices in somo of tho Main Trunk districts. At tho Huntorvillo salo last week Messrs. Colo and Woolly paid £1 Bs. 4d. per head for a lino of 00 wethers. At the Taihapo salo on the following day a lino of 15 wethers, from Mr. Barnes's Taoroa property, realised £1 12s. per head, the. purchaser being Mr. J. Webb, who disposed of his purcliaso immediately after the sale at an advance of Gd. per head. This prico is a record for this district.

The Wanganui Education Board received an unusual letter from the Eaetihi School Committee at its meeting last week Tho cominittce asked if it was possible to build a separato school for Natives; also if school committees had any pgwer to excludo unclean Native children from the schools.—The board decided to forward tlie letter to the Education Department. The discovery of a reef bearing gold in payable quantity is reported to liavo been made in tlio Rangitikei district. The locality is being kept a secret for the present.