DISTRICT NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2205, 18 July 1914, Page 3

DISTRICT NEWS.

JOTTINGS FROM PROVINCIAL - CENTRES. (From Our epooial Oomepoadenti) PALMERSTON NORTH. . £' ""I "ailed Peter Hansen had both his logs broken at Cook and Son's [ to-operage by a stack of timber falling on him. Tho Liedertafel on Thursday night gave a most successful concert before if a s e audlenc e at the Opera House. Mr. Maurice Cohen conducted, and the eploists were Mrs. E. L. Broad J. ™S ers J ™cal); and H. Moschini (clarionet). Miss Ktauley Bell'was at the piano. The annual report of the Fire Brigade states that 37 calls occurred duriu g c y v ar » moßt 6orious beil, g the nre at the railway gas works. Various medals and bars were due, and I'lreman Nelson's long-sorvice gold star w?uld be due at the end of the year for twenty-fivo years' service. Tho funds were in credit £28. The Baptist choir gave the second of their series of socials on Wednesday evening m :aid,of the new organ fund inree interesting competitions were included, and were won as follow:— Udies nnil-driving, Mrs. Dymock; hat tnmming, Mr. C. Perry. TAIHAPE. Three thousand yearling brown trout H' "i tie Hau°tapu Iliver on The death occurred at the Wanganui Hospital on Tuesday of Mr. Thomas X'annin, at the age of 74 years Deceased was' a resident of Taihapo for some time, but-had been an inmate of the Wanganui Hospital for three months prior to his death. ~s'pr sh^ res k the Otaihape Meat and Produce Company Ltd., were placed in the Baetihi district last week. The total number of shares subscribed up to the present is 6500. representing a value of £32,500. With the placid of a-further 500 shares the'company "will be J n a position to commence operations. \n j f atll occurr ed at Tokarima on \Yednesday of Mr. W. T. Humphrey, aged 34 years. Deceased resided at .1 Utiku' some years ago, and was well known in the Taihape district. , Mr. 8.. G. AUswprfh, who was at one time managing editor of'tlio "Taihape Daily Times," and who recently filled the position of town clerk at Ohakune/ died at his homo in Taranaki last' week. ■ir-ii recently erected at.Smith's Mill, Mataroa, was officially opened on ■ Tuesday. The Egmont Box Company's output for the year ended June 30 was 190,980 butter boxes and 251,190 cheese crates. The. number of butter boxes manufactured showed'an increase of 877G, and cheese orates 32j185. Most of the timber used was milled at Ohutu, near Taihape. ._-.': A combined meeting of ratepayers in the Eangitikei County and Upper Wanagehu lload District will be held on July 22 for the. purpose'of discussing a proposal to raise a joint loan foV metalling the Mataroa road. ■ .'During the recent wet weather a number of sma:ll slips occurred on the .railway between Mangawekaand Hihitahi, but traffic 'was not interrupted. At a meeting of. tho Taibape School Committee it was reported that woolclassing .classes had been organised in different parts of tho district, but the Wanganui Education Board had' failed to keep its promise .to appoint an instructor. ■; ' . A lad named Hauiti Potaka, aged 13 year's, was'admitted ti>: a 'private hospital' at Taihape, suffering from wounds caused by a pga rifle. Potaka was one of a pig-huntthg party, and the rifle he was carrying exploded, the bullet passing _through his left hand and lodging in his cheek. The bullet was extracted and the patient is progressing favourably.. . . _ Mr. J. Peacock, of Oruamatua Station, has donated a valuable.trophy for competition among members of tlioTai>ape Golf Club., MARTIHBOROUOH. .'Preparations for the opening cere-, mony in connection with the FeatnerBton—Martinborough railway line are practically complete. At a meeting of the Railway League on Thursday afternoon in the Mnrtinborough Town Hall, over which Mr. R. D. M'Leod presided, it was announced that a party of menibera of Parliament, including the Hon. \V. Fraser, would be present. The Parliamentary'party will be met at Featherston and taken in motors over the" proposed railway route, and.thence ; on to MaVtinborough to lunch, after 'which tho the first sod will take place. A committee was formed at the meeting to take. in hand the matter of decorating the- town for tho occasion. The business' people of Martinborough are highly gratified with the Government for their action in commencing this much-needed. service.