PROVINCIAL NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 18 July 1907, Page 2

PROVINCIAL NEWS.

WHANGAMOAIOMOXA, ■'• ■: (From Our Own, Correspondent.) ' •Several farms have changed hands here/ recently. A southern buyer has bought ' ' out Messrs King, Baker, and Simmond. "v Air A. Reid has also sold his place to a .' Air Anderson, from Ashurst. Several ,' ■ j other persons have been in looking for '3 land, but failed to obtain it. % The local hotel has changed hands, -" •'Bunny'' Abbott, of football fame, being ' M the purchaser, and takes it over durlna '1 the week. . Laborers are very scarce here at pre-" % sent, and farmers are having some diffl- •£ culty in getting men to do their bush---isS A football match was played here last "Ji bahmlay between Strathmore and Ohu- &m ra. the latter winning by six points to' 4a| »> • Air V. Jackson had charge of'tiit'-'jH game, which was very uninteresting ftonr-« a bpeetnior's point of view. The viaifr. . » or, \u-ro entertained in the oveninir by'viSS the ohura club. * *JK M-ssrs Ballard and Morpeth, Govern- : *H ment surveyors, have knocked off for'-fjl the winter and have -gone to New Ply. ,S9 mouth. '"-'i« -Mr Jack Wilson, the local schoolmast- '"fl or, has sent in his resignation, and leaves *"§ for the South Island in about a fortnight % or three weeks. ",j 11/7/07.