TAIHAPE NOTES.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9089, 7 March 1908, Page 5

TAIHAPE NOTES.

Prom Our Own Correspondent,

A sale of Ohakuue sections in the Welsh Estate was held at the local mart. There was a good attendance and at times some fairly spirited bidding. Town sections on the Main street were sold from £39 to £3B. The largest sections from 3 to 15 acres, were sold at prices ranging from £l4 to £35 per acre. The homestead section of 169 acres was passed in, the vendors’ bid being £ls per acre. About half the sections offered were knocked down to the vendor’s bid.

The drought is now fairly broken, and good warm rain throughout the district is very general. There are still hope for winter feed, and the spirits of the farmers are now rising, and we are glad of it as no doubt they have had a very trying time. But most clouds have a silver lining, and we trust it will prove so with our farming industry, as the success of the town to a very large extent, depends on the success oi the farmer.

A young man named Copestake, from Inglewood, was arrested here on Wednesday on a charge of forgery. He was before the local bench on Thursday and remanded back to Inglewood, to appear on the 7th inst. Sergt. Beattie, has been appointed in charge of the Taihape police district, which extends from Hunterville on the south to Baetihi on the north. I understand that a monthly prison is to be established at Taihape, when it will not be necessary to send short time prisoners to Wanganui, but prisoners up to a month may be detained here. Mr Aldridge has been elected on the Education Board as member for the Northern District.