DISTRICT NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 February 1916, Page 8

DISTRICT NEWS.

EGMOKT VILLAGE, (From Our Own Correspondent.) Tlie annual meeting of the Egmont Village Athletic Club was held on January 28. The president, Mr. A. Morton, was in the chair, and the meeting was well attended. The secretary. Mr H. \V. Baxter, read the report and balancesheet, which was unanimously adopted. The present committee remain in office for the ensuing year. The meeting was strongly in favor of sports being held some time in March, on a date to be subsequently fixed by the committee, all events to be post entry, the net proceeds to be handed over to the Wounded Soldiers Fund. Mr. W. Olson had the misfortune to lose a valuable Ayrshire cow recently through being blown, when feeding on a rich clover pasture, which was a second growth, following a crop of oats which had recently been harvested. Mr. Olson states that he used due care, putting the cows on the clover an hour or so eaeli day for several days for the cows to become inured to the strong feed. I have written these few lines' in connection with the matter, so that anyone reading may be put on their guard a garnet similar misfortune. The Kgmont Village school opened on the regulation date for a few days, when it was discovered there was a slight .epidemic in the nature of a akin eruption amongst some of the children. The doctors and the health inspector were duly consulted by the school committee and parents of the children affected. Subsequently a meeting of the school committee was held and the situation was thoroughly discussed, after which the committee decided to close the school for the present. A party of volunteers from here went to Mr. Beauchamp's farm on the F.gmont Road, at the beginning of the week, and harvested his hay for him. They were hospitably treated by Mrs. I.anglan, who is in charge during Mr. Beauchamp's absence at the front. The many friends of Mr. Douglas -Clyde, who is at present at Zeitoun, Egypt, serving bis country, will be pleased to hear that he is in good health and wishes to be remembered to them all. He says there are 80,000 horses at. the camp—as he puts it, "horses wherever you look."