DISTRICT NEWS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 303, 1 February 1910, Page 7

DISTRICT NEWS

WARE A. (From Onr Own Correspondent.) Mr. Charles Wells has leased his farm on the Ruauere road to Mr. Sutton, who will commence milking at once, supplying the local cheese factory. Mr. Crockett, the stock inspector for this .part of the coast, will inoculate caives at Mrs. Judge's yards oa February 1. Mr. Newton King will sell furniture 011 Tuesday on account of Mrs. Leedoin, wlio lately sold her farm, and is now leaving for Hastings, where liter son John is farming. The local school re-opened on Monday after the Christmas holidays. The driver of the motor 'bus. Air. R. Whale, met with a nasty accident while he was getting some parcels and the mail off the top of the 'bus at the local post office 011 Friday night. As he was taking down the parcels, lite turned rouid°to get down again, and his foot slipped, and he fell down faster than Ik ■wanted to, falling 011 to the cni and hurting himself considerably. After a delay "of some time, he recovered a little from the shock, and started 011 his journev to Opunake. morning a report was circulated here, "when the ma if was overdue., that the '>bus had '•broken down" on the road, and that the mail was coming along in a huggv, but the truth was that the driver was too bad to drive the "bus. It is seldom that a day passed by but what a report is .spread along the coast that either a motor waggon or a 'bus has "broken down" oil the road. The motors have onlv to stop on the road to allow the machinery to be oiled, and Unreport "oes forth that the cars are "broken down." It would seem that come people have the words "broken down" on the brain. The weather up to Friday ni»ht had been a scorcher, but on Saturda.v morni no - at davbreak heavy rain set m and continued'all day until night, and then it started again and poured down 011 Sunday and k°pt coing all night.