DISTRICT NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 167, 21 December 1914, Page 8

DISTRICT NEWS.

: TAIiIKI, 11 ■„ T,ll i mv '"S communication from th ■ I) Premier lias been received by Jlr Per fival, secretary of the Tariki Co-opera-tive Dairy Company.— I „ •D ear Sir, I beg to acknowledge with 1 „f, . s the receipt of your letter of the • . isth mat, forwarding a cheque for £35 3 as a contribution from the Tariki Coi, operativo Dairy Company to the Patriotic Fund. In reply, I shall be glad if you will kindly convey to the share. » holders of the company the cordial thanks of the Government for the hand- • some donation, which is gratefully accepted. lam sending the cheque to the . Paymaster-General with a request that it be lodged to the credit of the Patriotic Fund.—Yours faithfully, W. F. Massey. Tho local deputation which recently interviewed Mr. Ililey, the General Manager of Railways, when he passed through Tariki, have the satisfaction of . finding their representation of the . need of a goods-shed has not been in 1 vain. Settlers in the district will be t pieased to hear that one is to be erected . shortly, the work of clearing the site i being now nearly completed. I hear that i a station.master's house is also to be . built on part of the Government reserve i leased by the cheese factory. [ Women's franchise may be a very grand thing, but under weather eondii tions such as prevailed on election day it i means that in country districts many women cither lose their votes or have to face exposure and the likelihood of a good soaking, neither of which is in the true interests of the Dominion .