TAUMARUNUI.

King Country Chronicle, Volume I, Issue 1, 26 October 1906, Page 3

TAUMARUNUI.

All the mothers of children in Taumarunui signed a petition to the Fowlds last week, asking for a Board school to be established here, as there are forty-six European children attending the Native school, and many go to Pirjaka, seven miles away; others attend no school. No reply has been received direct, but I hear that Mr Fowlds telegraphed to Mr Richie, .secretary of the, L.. and L. *-League, to interview Mr Mclntyre, the Native schoolmaster, re his opinion on same! Of course that means it is shelved. I have now learnt that the Minister did not fully understand the position, and has promised to make exhaustive enquiries with a view to a change for the better. The Maoris around here are out in the back sections choosing every sheltered spot they can find to plant their potatoes, hoping thus to escape the blight. • The contractor for the new Magis.trate's Court and Police Station has started operations at Rangaroa, the upper township. It seems hard lines that he has to make, his own road up the face of.,the cliff, to? cart the Government timber; I,hear he is likely to lose- considerably on his contract. Mr" Spencer, Home Missionary, held his usual monthly service in the new church on Sunday last, and there was a large congregation both morning and evening. I was agreeably surprised to, see so many young men at the.evening service, and the great interest they took in it. 1 Rev. Father Tomey held Mass in the Hakioha Hall on Sunday morning; he also had a large congregation. --. A concert is to be held here on November 6th, by the school children. A tennis club has. been formed at Laird's mill and they are hard at work getting the ground in order for the coming season. Taumarunui it?seM has not yet been able to form a •lack of suitable site being the chief obstacle; '. The building trade is very brisk

just now, and all the available carpenters'are hard at work, and a goocL. j _ number more could be employed if obtainable. Mrs MatHias 7 Has also, enlarged the popular tourist resort, Meredith i * House, by adding.sixteen new bedrooms and doubling the size of the . dining room. A verandah, will run . the full, length of the eastern side /which will . b£ a great convenience to " tourists and visitors, as it will be very pleasant Jin the summer: for a social smoke iii the evening. Mr\Simmbnds' boarding house, 'which now olier twenty rooms, is being enlarged by the addition of ten more rooms. This house " is now put on a' thoroughly up-to-date basis and will be able to accommodate a number of tourists. A new large dining *room has. been added, also a smoking room,. sitting room, bath rooms, etc. A new feature is the tourists dining room, which will be separate frOm the other. „ A young man named Chas. Stevens, met with a nasty accident, at the Front, on Friday last, having the. top of his little finger taken off, and the bone of the second joint crushed. He was attended here by Dr. Cairns, who found it necessary to amputate the -finger-at the bone. He is now doing . well.