INGLEWOOD.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 December 1915, Page 4

INGLEWOOD.

(From Our Own Correspondent.) Several poultry yards have been visited recently at night by fowl snateliers, the latest being that of Mr. T. Drake who suffered the loss of 14 young cockerels, which he had oecn fattening for the Christmas season. It is certainly contemptible thieving. The constable is very much alive and keeping a strict watch, but his efforts are futile. First in one part of the town, and then in another the thieves manifest their presence.

The Patriotic Ladies' Committee held a very successful Red Cross Mart in Curtis' Buildings last Saturday, when a very creditable collection was made, reaching the sum of £lO, this being the highest amount secured by the Mart. Donations £1 17s Cd, sale of ham and cake (bowling green) 7s (id, G. Sutherland (golf trophy) £l, Mrs. C. O. Soberts (sale of flowers) ss, Croquet Club £1 10s, W. E. Percival 10s, sale of eggs (Mrs. Vickers) 10s, Mart receipts £lO. It is intended holding a mart on Friday next in the Coffee Palace Buildings, where the committee will be very pleased to receive gifts of all kinds of saleable goods.

Several of the local lads are home on leave from the Rangiotu Camp, and all express themselves as feeling as "fit as fuddles," and are anxiously looking for the day of their departure from New Zealand for one of the fronts. Private Payne is making a steady, but sure recovery from his wounds, while Trooper Geo. Nicholls continues to carry a bullet around embedded in one of his thighs. Recruiting continues in a very satisfactory manner, several having enlisted during the last few days. The Municipal Swimming Baths are very well patronised. You see people of both sexes, at different hours of the day, mailing their way down in processin to the baths, intent on taking a cooler. The town seems to be in the grip of a swimming craze. Instead of being accosted with "Do you tango," one is asked by nine out of every ten people you meet, "Have you been to the baths yet?" A meeting of the Patriotic Committee was held on Monday night, when his Worship the Mayor presided. The Sunflower Entertainers, of Waitara, offered to give an evening in Inglewood for the Wounded Soldiers' Fund. The offer was accepted, and Messrs Percival, Young and Messenger were deputed to make the necessary arrangements. Mr. W. E. Percival was appointed delegate on the Taranaki Provincial War Relief Association.