UTIKU NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3458, 12 April 1920, Page 2

UTIKU NEWS.

(Fl-0111 Our Own Corl~espon<jlellL.)

3 To the stranger passhlg through our town in the tra':ll Utiku I'fia_v not look very inviting. but some figures Sh()W that Utiku is the cmm-e of a Very solid district‘, as the following 1-01.111-11 of the business done at the Utiku ‘x-:l.ilwa_v station I_»rov<r:s: 100-0 pas:<ellgers. 30,000 sheep, Gl3 c:~.t('le, 132 pigrs. 6000 tons of timber. 9000 tons of general Inerchandise, while the approxixnate revenue was £2OOOO. The above figures are those of the ;:~:1.~:t year. If “cleanliness be next to Godli—ness” then the staff at the 1-ailwany station here practice the injunction, for the spotless» cleanliness of the station calls for the admiration of all who use the station. Few stations on the Main Trunk Line that handle the amount of business that Ul-iku does. is kept so clean, and the staff are to ho warmly cc-ngramlcated on this fact.

The }-C-Cal school rzonnnittee are having great difiic'.lll'y in filling the vacancy of -headmaster at the school, no less than four reli.e\'ing‘ teachers being sent here since Mr Lewis’ departure. There must ‘:b(‘ 21 great‘ shortage of l:e2lCll€‘l'g when an important school like Utiku~—where there are tlu-ee teachers. is unablo To get 9.. head teacher. If the Education Dcpartineni would wake up and make the teaching IJl'ofc?SSioll lilol't‘ attractive. ‘there would not be this l1'0'LIb1‘? in finding teachers. The }_)OS‘yll‘iOn in Utikn is most: uilsatisl.‘:':tory, and calls for the iininedizrte help of the \V;~.n:e;anui Edilcation Board. or the Depar.-11119111. ,=-mother urgently needed tliing in Utiku is 21 butcher, and l'h‘3l'G is an c:;(.*/ellent opening here for a bu‘rchel‘,’s shop. Pm'l‘.-;lp.< the Taihape R.S.A, or i:he‘Patl-iotic Society know of some returned soldier who is looking for an opening in this direction. If so then Utiku is prepared to Welcome such with open arms and purses

~ When the welcome home to the Utiku tlistrict 1’6§tLll‘ll€(lSO1(ll€l‘S was giveii. last; year, the comniittee I'9sponsible for the function anaiiged for the balance of the money to go towards the erection of an Honors Board in the local school.’ so far nothing further has been heard about the matter. ‘ Surely ‘the people of Utiku are not going to let this matter drop, for among the many thousands who formed the N.Z.'E.F. tllere were none who played their part. more valiantly than the Utiku boys, and there are in this district, homes, in which the vacant chair, tell of the supreme sacrifice made by brave men and it is up to us "to see that their memory is kept green. VVllen the local school committee have filled the teacher vacancy, I commend this object to their notice. Ohutu has their board well under way, so Utiku, Wake