DISTRICT NEWS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 345, 22 March 1910, Page 7

DISTRICT NEWS

(From Our Own Correspondents.) WAREA. I am informed that the foreman and his staff of men that have been working on the Carrington road have been knocked off . I understand the Parihaka Road Board has taken over the :<,ad and will let the work by contract. The milk supply at the local factory is on the decrease. Our local sawyers, Messrs Clarke and Julian, who competed at the Okato •ports last Thursday, seem to have had hard luclt in not winning the doublehanded sawing events, when they got so close, making a tie in the first event and only had three seconds start ahead of the world's champion. By all accounts, they are going to give the champion all he wants at Oakura next Thursday. The Cape Egmont Horticultural Society is now paying out the prize money in connection with the recent show, amounting to '£2o. A meeting of the suppliers of the loeal dairy company will be held in the local hall on Wednesday night for the purpose of discussing the question of procuring manures in the cheapest and best market. Mr. J'rerl. Jenkins, our local rifleman, who i\vent to Trentham to compete in the shooting there, returned home last Thursday. A motor car containing several commercial travellers collided with a horse that was being led behind a dray here on Saturday night just after dark. It appears that alter leaving the Warn' store, and crossing the Wahveranui bridge, and going up the hill on the northern side of the "bridge, a mail, driving a dray and leading two horses, was met, and one of the horses turned round and ran right into the motor car, wiiv:n threw the car into the bank, anunst capsizing it. The damage done to the ear was a broken splash-board and a broken axle cap. If the motor car had lights the accident might not have happened. If Mr. Ben Tippins were out this way he would soon get a long list of offenders for driving without lights. Mr. Nairn, representative for the Woodville Bacon Company, has l«>ttly been in the district. The farmers were pleased to meet him and to know that another market has been opened for pigs.