The Taihape Daily Times THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1915. LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 348, 16 December 1915, Page 4

The Taihape Daily Times

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1915. LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

AND WAIMAEINO ADVOCATE

(With which is incorporated The Tai- ' bape Post and Waimarino News.)

Owing to the electical appliances by wiiels our composing machines sre worked, having broken down, we have to apologise for this issue being late and for a shortage of reading matter. The Taihape Public School closes from to-day for the summer holiday vacation. .; Mr. Ike Phmkett, of Taihape, has disposed of his business, and is going Into the sawmilling at Mataroa. There appears to be something distinctly wrong with telephonic connection between Taihape and Feilding. This office had to abandon an attempt to communicate with our Feilding contemporary and resort to telegraphy. The property adjoining the Otaihape Freezing works, owned by Mr George Wilkinson, of Winata, has been sold to the Freezing Co. The property includes four new houses and one in course of erection. It is understood the price was £2,300. In another column the Upper Wangaehu Road Board notify that at its meeting on Thursday, 30th December, a rate of three-farthings in the pound will be payable in one instalment on the 16th January, 1916. The rate-book for the district is now open for inspection at the Board's office, Taihape, during office hours. [ Those who are thinking of entering the Public Service as shorthand-writers and typists, are notified that examinations for both Senior and Junior entrance examinations take place on the sth February, 1910. Juniors include women between the ages of W and 20 and the. Seniors between the ages of 18 and 30 years. Particulars of oxami nation, and sew scale of pay may bo o,b ts&k* at Oils cf%£