PROVINCIAL NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 4 October 1907, Page 4

PROVINCIAL NEWS.

(From Our Own Correspondents.) OI'L'NAKE. The recent rough weather has greatly interfered with the working of our port. During September the boat has only been able to work here onee. A meeting is to be held here next week to try and form a tenuis club iu the town. It is to be hoped all interested will attend, as a tennis club would till a long-felt want. Dominion Day passed off quietly here. At 11 a.m. the business places closed, and Mr YV. C. Dudley (chairman of the Town Board) read the proclamation in the presence Of the school cadets anil a number of townspeople. He also, in an appropriate speech, referred to the im]K>rtanee of tile occasion. The cadets then saluted the flag, after which three cheers were given for the Dominion and the Xational Anthem was sung. The annual meeting of the Howling Club was held on Friday evening, Dr. Morrison presiding. The balance-sheet showed that there was a balance in hand of £2O 18s, and also that £3O had been paid off the mortgage account, which now stood at £230. The president stated this was due to the assiduous manner in which Mr Teuton had worked as secretary. Several new members wefe proposed. At Te Kiri on Friday evening a farewell social was tendered to Mr F. Bates (school master), who is leaving for 11awera, and .Mr I'. Collins, who is leaving for East Coast. There was a large attendance, both being very popular in the district. During the evening Mr H. Muuro presented Mr Bates with a silver-mounted dressing case and outfit and a ladies' purse, and Mr Collins with a portmanteaux for himself and a travelling rug for Mrs Collins. Both rei turned thanks in a few appropriate remarks.

RAIiOTU. The local school, which has bctn closed for the past fortnight on account of the prevalence of sickness, w.is to nave reopened on Monday, but as there is still a lot of sickness in the district it was decided to keep the school closed another week.

I am pleased to state that most of those who have been seriously ill are now on a fair way to recovery. It is a long time since so much sickness h.ic been experienced, and Dr Morrison, of Opunako, Ims been kept very UIISV nl . tending to patients this end of the district. In some families five or *ixwere down at once, and great difficultywas experienced in obtaining nurses, atrained nurses could not be got and the usual voluntary assistance from neighbors, which is always forthcoming in tile country when requi a], was on this occasion almost unavailable, as nearly every family in the district had some member or members laid up and requiring attention from fhcii own family. Th* oiiostion nf sinrtbi" p eo-oneva five rhcese f-.ctr.n- at Ttnhofn ;, „„t 'joins to lie dropped A meet : ng o r sn -- "|iers to the creamery at the TJpp»r Kahui road is to bp held to discuss (he matter, and a meeting of the suppliers of the Crown Dairy- Company is also to be held. It is proposed if the facto ■? is decided upon to erect a lmiMinj,' nci'r the- tnvnshin. which would 1 1P capa'.'e of dealins with the milk from the main road as well as from the Upper an.l Lower Kahili roads . Durine the past week the settlers nnrf both mills on the Kah„; road have had men and teams out assisting-to repair the road, which had got into a very bad state.

A shooting eomprtilion under the ans nice* of the local rifle c'ub was held it the ranee on Saturday. The wither' were not very favorable fir shooting. The winner turned up in Mi T. Colmer. Scores:—

sno con Tl. ■T. Conner 2(5 25 51 A. Chapman 2S 18 4f V. F. Phillips .. .. 15 30 45 K Harrison ] 7 21 3jj TT. Baker 20 M 31 A meeting of the Rahotu Sports Club was held on Raturdw evening. Mr .Tns. Garcia presiding. An exccu''tvc committee was appointed, consisting n' Messrs finrcia, Porteous. TTall, Phillips and Fischer. Mr flilmonr was appointed auditor, and Mr TT. Baker timekeeper. An exe»lent programme w:>s drawn u,i over £7O being arransrel to be giveif awnv in prizes. Tile West Coast Aynmn's Cup carries €l2 15s. the 440vds €7, and other events are in proportion. A shovelling contest has been added, and bids fair to ihe a popular event.

A mecHmr of the Farmers' Union \vs held on Monday evening, Mr Blenkelv presiding Owing to the roughness of the evening, there was only a small at tendance. Pome routine business was dealt with, and the was adjourned until Saturday afternonn.

Dominion T)\y passed off very ouiet'v here, the onlv notice that was taken of it being a holiday at the Post Office.