NORMANBY.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 September 1915, Page 3

NORMANBY.

(From Our Own Correspondent.) Normanby, Yesterday. Reference was made at the Normanby Presbyterian Church on Sunday evening, to the death from wounds at Anzac on August 7, of Corporal John A. Shaw. The deceased soldier was a prominent member of the old Normanby Football Club, and his genial manner made him a general favorite. This makes a total of eight young men who have fallen, while several have been wounded, including Coiporal Claude Street, who lias been wounded for the third time.

r ihc Town Board will have under consideration on Tuesday evening, the offer of Mr. Hislop, of Hawera, to give a section of land as a site for a Post Office. The site is a good one, just opposite the railway station. Only a porion of the land must be acquired for the Post Oflico, and the balance is a donation to the Wounded Soldiers' Fund.

Another batch of young men will be leaving for Trentham early in October, making a total of 43 from this district. There are a few still left who are shirking their responsibility, and they seem quite content to let the other fellow fight in order to protect their own property. In one ease a family of six sons, not one of whom has so far enl'.r.ied, has leased two adjacent farms in older that the boys may have some shadow of an excuse for staying at home. The farmers' sons, on the whole, arc responding well, hut there are a few shirkers.

The idea of merging the town district with the Hawera County Council has fallen flat, , and now that the Town Board has put the main road in good order it is likely that nothing further will be heard about the matter. Those who are opposed to merging have a numerously signed petiton ready for presentation, as a counter petition to the signatures in favor.

It is rumoured that the ratepayers intend calling upon one of the members oi the Board to resign his position as a Commissioner, in order to test the feeling of the ratepayers upon the question, fins member, who is ah employee of tho County Council, was one of the prime movers in favor of merging with the County.