OTAKI and DISTRICT

Horowhenua Chronicle, 15 May 1916, Page 3

OTAKI and DISTRICT

NEWiS ITEMS FROM OTAJyI MAIL. In the course ol his annual report to the parishioners, presented on Tliursdwy niglit last, the vicar oi All tiainu' Church, Ot;iki, made a lengthly refuience to the war. uraduaily it was being brought home to us, through bereavwnent, sacrifice, through the terrible biutality and inhumanity of our so-callled "cultured" enemies, that behind all the horrors and devastation of this war God is moving—that it had come upon us through our own conduct, through our neglect of duty, through suicidal forgetfulness oi the majesty of God. The v icar went on to deplore the fact there were hundreds in our own districts alone who never entered a church, who though decent, resp >otaible citizens totally ignored! the claims of any higher state. He concluded : "To the student of history to the thoughtful enquirer into the object of our life here, the lesson on this terrible war will not have been learnt, and the issue wdl not have been decided until t!;<> people mend their ways, and turn to the Lord their God. 1 ' "We never hear the farmer say that he got Is Id for his wool, and a high price for his butter; but if the 'ouncil wishes him to do a< bit of fencing, up goes hi* back and he says the price of wire is too high to do the work. Such words make me sick," sair Cr. Whiteman at y Mien lay's meeting of the Hutt County Council.

Corpl. Eric Lynch and I'te. Tvthe Brown (brother to Mr Bryon Brown), who are in a convalescent home at Wellington, are making a splen 1 : <1 roeove.y, in fact the latter houos sh 111 v .to again offer Ins services lor tho front. Jiieut. E. O. Mousley, at one time a member of the local .State i-.chool teaching staff, is now with the Royal Field Artillery in Mesopotamia. His lather who resides in Palauerston N.. has received a cablegram, stating that the 'is quite well. I The nominations for the Otaki race f meeting clofced on Monday. They are, numerically. as follows:—Flying 26. Taihoa Steeples 18, Lup 31, Otaki Hack 17, Rahui 23, Birthday 23. eoond day—Telegraph" 29, Te Roti Steeplee 20, Huia 45, Stewards 39. Railway 28, Ohau Welter 2<>. J'mtries for the Maiden Flat total 23, andi for the Final Hack Scurry 27. The fine BeHiss and) Morcom engine, installed some six years ago at the Otaki Hospital and Sanatorium power-house, is now lying badly damaged, owing, it is thought, to a pin becoming crystallised andi breaking, and finally becoming mixed up wfth the works. Mr Basset t, who 'is in charge, was near by at "the time, and although he was very prompt in stopping the engine, damage to the extent of some £40 to 050 has been done.