OTUTU NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3345, 25 November 1919, Page 5

OTUTU NEWS .

(From Our Owen Correspondent.) The friends of Mr James Maefadzean, teacher of the Ohutu school, will regret to learn :that he is an inmate of the Taihape ..'Hospital. -Latest. reports state that he is progressing favourably. “Your Own” ‘joins with his friends in wishing him a speedy recovery. I H Despite the important issues at stake, Ohutu reniains politically calm, and the two candidates who have spoken -have had quiet meetings. Our political prophets -are busy with their prophecies, but they most prophecy in accordance with their party leanings. Ohutu, in the past, has remained true to the Liberal Party, but with an organised Labour Party in our midst, it is quite on the carcls that the allegiance given in the past to Sir Joseph Ward will swing to the Labour candidate. but the motto made famous by My Asquith, “Wait?-land see,” applies to the present elections.

The {Local vProh'i'b'ition League ‘is challenging a.ll-comers to debate the prohibition question, and if it ‘is accepted an interesting debate should; result, for Obutu possesses some debaxfing talent. of :3. high order. Our little rtowrrship wals en fete one day last Week, the occasion being the wedding of one of our pioneers’ daughters, and never before has so many m-0-tor cars been seen in our midst. There were close on 30l'car.s—a sure indication that the early pioneering days have been left behind. Nine years ago the only ear to 'be seen travelling our roads was -that of a certain meclico then in Taih-ape, and if a. car was seen one could safely say, “There goes Dr. ————.-" We are progressing, sir, and Jvho knows but that nine years hence we shall ‘have aeroplanes in Ohutu.

The roll of honour in connection with our school is now in the course of p'repa.ra'tion', and it shrould ;['ol‘nl; a. fitting memorial to those who played their part in the War of 1914-1918. '