TAIHAPE NOTES.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8834, 10 June 1907, Page 2

TAIHAPE NOTES.

(From Our own Correspondent.) Tho sale of Turangaroro sections was not tho success tho promoters of tiie sale imagined. ■ About three sections were sold at tho upset price ; one realised £lO 10s more by local people. The others were booked to Wellington speculators, who probably have never seen them, and perhaps never will. The auctioneer, the Hon. T. K. McDonald, twitted the Taihape people and said they were too slow to catch worms. Well, that is as it may be; but wo do not think that the appearance of cur young town quite bears out that assertion. He also said that "no man in Taihape had as good an opinion as he had of the future of the town and district." Well, if he had, and always had, such a defined knowledge and opinion of the future of Taihape, why was he one of the first to sell on the first rise tho property he owned in Taihape? The laying of. the rails beyond Raugitau* is being delayed by the bad weather in that district. The ground is so wet that it will not carry the rails; but the work on the line preparing for the rails is being vigorously unshed on, and there is now almost a certainty that the lines will connect before tho time stated,

Preparations are being pushed forward for »the erection of the Bank of New Zealand, which are in tho hands of Messrs Russell and Bignell, and will be erected yet beforo the Post Office, which has now been, under process for about 18 months

There fire at the present time several cases of diphtheria in our town, and I am afraid proper precautions have not been taken to prevent the spread of the disease. I think that our city fathers are to blame in the matter by appointing the Town Clerk as Health Inspector of th 9 town—a combintion of duties not likely to be successful. Death has been busy in our district, and we regret to say that two homes —one at tjtiku and one at Ohutu —have been left motherless. We extend our heartfelt sympathty to the bereaved, Mr D. Manser, of Utiku, and Mr O'Connor, of Ohutu, both having been left with a little

family. Dr. Rogers, who Was for about two years practising here, has left and gone home to the Old Country. His practice has been taken over by Dr. E. C. Bannett, who is now settled down in Taihape with his wife.