OTAKI NOTES

Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 29, 4 February 1913, Page 8

OTAKI NOTES

1 , -■■ ■» - - . - , (if MLEGBAPfi— SPECIAt TO THE POST.) „.. • OTAKi,' This Day. While , three • men, ; strangers -to the place; were Jndulging-in surf ? ba'thing off the mquth, of the" Waikawa River, on Monday they got caught' in ' an undercurrent, with the ' result that they were soon, itt diftidultles. - Luokily, they were sejsn v -by a hauling < party, who ' rescued two .with, a rope, the! other .in the meanwmle being. carried .out , to, sea. Fortu.nately,' a native, on horseback went to the rescue, securing the' ntan; as he was on the point of sinking. He wasjbrought ashore in .an exhausted condition, but made "rapid recovery. - The monthlj' meeting of tlie Road Board took place on Monday afternoon,, when 'the business- Was' chiefly of a routine character^ It. was decided that estimates,- be ( procured ..relative 4<> the' cost of .effecting repairs' to> the Waikawa Bridge; to closa the roads -s for , grazing purposes ; to effect improvements at Manaka'u andWaerehgajiand'to issue a final warning to 'ratepayers owing rates. ■-•-.< - ■ The_ death occurred on Sunday at Bulls of Miss; Agnes Ransfield, a daughter of Mr. Hiwi Ransfield, of Manakau. Deceased, who' had . been in .failing t health for some time, was returning home in * motor car when, she .expired. Mr. Ransfield recently suffered a sad loss, by the death of his wife. '- ■ • ' The Annual general meeting of the local- Library' Committee was . held' on Saturday night, Mr. .W. Burns-Smith presiding. Tho election of officers resultod, as follows : —Committee, Mesdames Hopkins and . Knight, ' Messrs. W. B. 3mith. Frank Perm,' and R. Booth .librarian, Mr. ' W. Fisher j auditor, Mr. Freeman. • ' • ' - ' During January 3.Bflin of rain fell, the maximum being li32in, on- the 2?th. Rain fell on, sixteen day 8. The total fall for January, 1912, was 2isoin. ; A quartette of bowlera visit Levin tomorrow to 'play for the -Toms' Feathers. The rink will consist of Thomson (skip), Bates, Bills, and Cook". '

The Rev.' Dr. Youngman, of Queensland, president, of ' the Genotal Conference of the Methodist Church of Australasia, .before leaving - for .Wellington this morning told • a Dunedin Star reporter • (telegraphs our correspondent) that , Queensiandefs had a. very friendly feeling towards , New Zealanders, and watch with keenness all that is going 'on in this Dominion ,ac regards social progress, and they have special interest in the Dominion's Temperance legislation. A new Licensing Act had Recently been parsed in Queensland. It represents a considerable., advance on the previous Act. It provides for all stages of local option « up to' Prohibition whe-n the peopl« are ready for it. ' A salo' of medical' works, chemists' and druggists' sundries, «nd storekeepers' lines, is advertised for Thursday at 2.30 p.m., by; the 'farmers'" DirtribuHnsf '■ 06.^ - l IVuit -Markets, AUen-«tree*. ■ . . _ :