DISTRICT NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 June 1915, Page 3

DISTRICT NEWS.

, NCMIAXBY. ('troni Our Oiwn Correspondent). . Tiie niontlily mewling of. the Town Board was held on .Monday eveijng. Present: (_onuuissioners Tlios. Free (chairman), J. Cocker, It. Hams, F. W. Kiddle, and A. AnenscA. ■ .Home' took'' place on the question of raising the rates. Commissioner Cocker moved that the rates remain the same as last year, (ommis-uoner F. \V. Kiddle moved an amendment that the rate be. increased by one penny over that'of las't'year. The' amendment, however, was not seconded, the motion being carried. Correspondence -was received from the PostmasterGeneral in rciplv to a resolution of the Board asking for a letter-carrier,• stating that it had 'been resolved to deliver Normaitby letters through the rural delivery. The Board objected., to this arrangement, and it was'resolved to apply for one delivery oi letters in the town, ship and to ask that telegrams be delivered as received.

At the Town Board meeting on Monday strong objection was raised to toe suggested delivery of letters in the township through the rural delivery. The suggestion is a most ridiculous one. Letters received in ■{.'!io 'Xoi'inau'by Post Office from (lie south by the mail train would be sorted and again forwarded to Hawera and delivered by means of the rural delivery from -Hawera about' ]0 o'clock: next morning. The Board resolved to solicit the help of the member for the district, Mr (!. V. Pearce, in securing a letter-carrier for Xormanby, The Bniil'd should have gone one further and applied for a post office in the township. It is to t'iie Board that the tO'Wiv■people are looking for a 'cad in this matter. Five Normanby boys have fallen at the Dardanelles, their'names being: Privates E. T>. iR. "Morrison, Kennelli W. TTarre, Ceorge IWiovan Biss.'tt and Lawrence Winks, killed in action, and Chariest Arthur Hayward, wounded. 'Miss Willetts, a teacher in tins Xorman'hy School, has rei-eived v/oul that her .brother lias been killed in action. Croat svmpat'hy is expressed for tht bereaved, but tfliey all died in a noble cause.

' The Weather here has been br.iken and' stormv during the past ton days, and to-day it is again raining heavily. Some of the dairy fanners who made no provision for a rainy day are feebng anxious about feed for their stock, Jhe feed is 'very scarce at present. The question 0 f merging into the Hawera County Council was not discussed at the Town Board meeting on Monday, and it is evident that us far as the Town Board members are concerned the matter will be dropped for the present, at any rat*. Some of the large ratepayers, however, intend going on with a petition from tlic ratepayers asking to be merged into the County Council, and they are determined to insist upon the matter being decided at the poll.