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Taihape Daily Times, Issue 160, 14 July 1916, Page 5

A parade of the local squadron of the 6th Mounted Rifles is being held to-day. A mooting of the local Patriotic Committee was hold last evening, when provisional rules wore onsidored and adopted. Advice has been received by the Union Company that the Wanakn, which had been drifting for some days, had been picked up to-day by the dredge Sir William Matthews, and towed to Carnarvon, Western Australia. Eleven sections at Otamakapau, live miles from Ohingaiti have boon drawn by returned soldiers, and already nine of tlie lessees are residing on their sections, and have commenced felling bush and scrub.