WAITARA.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 June 1916, Page 5

WAITARA.

(From Our Own Correspondent^ Waitara. June 10. ' , The s.s. Whakarua! completed her lotA* ing in the Roadstead and sailed for Wellington at midnight on Saturday, after taking in. the following cargo for Ixindon: 3505 quarters beef, 01(19 oarcaMS mutton, 2201! - carcases Inmb, 1413 sack* boned beef, 220 boxes frozen sundries, 45 sucks frozen sundries, lf)8 sack! hides, . and 221 casks tallow, ITlie next stemej to load here will be the s.s. Ruapehu, ■ due about the middle of July, s I A parrot was disposed, of on Saturday ■ in aid oE sailors' dependents, by' Mr. T. . Buchanan, resulting in £7 being obtained. • Those men who are leaving on Monday ■•* morning next to join the 18th Reinforce- i ments will be given a social in the Clifton Hall on Thursday evening. The best musical talent is being obtained,; . aitd on the whole a very attractive programme is to be submitted. * • The house to house collection made last Saturday by members of the ■ Ladies' Patriotic Committee, in aid of ' , the dependents of the sailors who lost their lives in the recent naval battle 111 ■ the North Sea, resulted in about £OO 1 heing collected. During the afternoon, the Municipal Brass Band playedia, number of appropriate and 'well-rendered selections in McLean Street, commencing with "To the Memory of the JBrave," ana ~ concluding with "The Empire." A donation of £1 Is has been received from Miss 15. J. Ptirdio ttfward# s

the funds of the Waitara Munioioaj Brass Baud. • '' - J