DISTRICT NEWS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 179, 8 November 1910, Page 3

DISTRICT NEWS

' OMATA. (From Our Own Correspondent.) | I saw in the report of the meeting! of directors of''f life 'Motor Transport Co., that they said "the sooner that this' part was malic the Kaitake county'/ tli" -ooner tHey could have good roads.'' > I have been speaking to several [of;. !.e ratepayers', arid they ai'e quite safe fied with the Taranaki county. There' has been more work done on the by"-' roads since'' they have under ijlie"; control 'of' the Taranaki county than :; there has been'for years. , All the loose stones have been" raked up and, ttie! water-tables'cleaned out,arid so'on. Thi'' main road alsd'ls in. fair order. ' pf.course we can't' expect t_6 have such la good road as tlie Waitara road fjnr cycling and motoring, because.we have' thirty tons of g'obds over this part to every one on the other road.' ,' t j We get albhg'her'e very well' on tie main, but there are one or two rathlr cantankerous persons' whom we should be glad to see the last of.. They haye "been around.' the"r'es't of the settlers trying to get them to sigh a petition to dispense with our foreman, because he has been doing. his-dirty-:-—impounding trie stray cattle. It was getting rather beyond a. Jokevvijen,, ois,;Go.uld"n't wa|c along the road at "night without running into some horse4 3rl ox..co.ii:a-or. something. I think the insurance agents ought flo have been abound at that time. They would have done,good because it certainly was dangerous. ~,.-. . ■We miss Mr. Allanson, for since he went away the attendance at church has fallen off. .-■■■•' '■"■' > Mr. Nixon will-soon be leaving us,'toij>J lam sorry t.o.say v Mr., Guy is expected back some fyme this, month. I daresay he noticed a, change ,-in the Old Country, not having seen it for so many years. '■' We all appreciate the lovely fine weather that ; we' hare had lately. ' , ' The milk supply at the factories is steadily rising. I regret to hear of the death of Mrs. H. Kendall's ha,by through whooping cough. All the children in the district- 1 have had the complaint, more or less, and it has interfered with the school attendance; ' ' " '