INGLEWOOD.

Taranaki Daily News, 11 November 1915, Page 3

INGLEWOOD.

(From Our Own Correspondent.) Inglewood, Yesterday. A meeting of the Patriotic Committee has been arranged for next Tuesday night, when the secretary will submit the balance-sheet, which shows in round figures that £2140 has been raised locally for patriotic purposes; £ls-10 has been disbursed, and there is a credit balance of £OOO. The committee will make arrangements for a public meeting, when an opportunity will be given for questions and the making of suggestions for the guidance of the committee in its future efforts. This will lie the time for those who "know" how to do thing's to shine. An error was made in reporting the amount collected .by the "f.uy Fawkes family"; it should have been £2 5s W/mI, instead of £2 15s. Master Tom Flay has also handed to the secretary 3s !)d, Guv Fawkes money. A presentation of a silver-mounted pipe was made last night in the fire •station by Captain A. Cold well, on behalf of the Brigade, to Fireman Hopkinson, who has been a Brigadesman for twelve months and leaves next Monday for Trentham. This is the fourth member that has enlisted, and the brigade is about to lose another member in Jlr. fvyd. l.o'vell, who leaves Inglewood shortly to take up a post at Kaimata. He has been a member of the brigade for the last four years. The captain of the brigade remarks: "I guess we will have to start a recruiting campaign for the brigade shortly." llr. Coldwell has been deputed to wait on the Council about the proposed new fire station. A rather sensational accident occurred last Monday at the milk factory, when a man named IToaking, employed on the Coldwell estate, very nearly met his death. Whilst filling his cans with skim milk he looked away for a few moments, during which time the can commenced to overflow and the milksplashed out and startled the horse. A bystander grabbed the horse's head in such a decided manner that the animal started to liack, and continued to do so until the river bank was reached, when the whole caboose toppled over and landed upside down in the lied of the river, a distance from the top of some 15 feet. The cart was smashed, the harness "-busted," the milk spilt, the cans all doubled up, the driver bruised, shattered and shaken, and the hocse had his temper tried.