OPUNAKE.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 June 1917, Page 3

OPUNAKE.

(From Our Own Correspondent). The monthly meeting of the Opunake Town Board was held on Monday even-

Applications were received from Mr. C. Callaghaii for permission to miikc a vehicle crossing from King street across the footpatli to libs new bakehouse; from Mr. Cornish to take a pipe culvert under footpatli in Main street. Both, applications were granted.

The sum of £0 Os was voted as subsidy to the reading room. The ranger reported that 54 cows and 10 horses v,t v e registered in the township; he had interviewed owners who had not registered, and they stated it was an oversight. -He had impounded two calves, three cows and two horses. A number of unregistered 'animals were ; Btill running in the township. i Owing to the foreman being in the ; \ew Plymouth hospital the clerk had : arranged with Mr. Crocker to attend to I the -Board's work in the meantime. The ' clerk's action was endorsed.

Various works, such as gravelling footpaths .and attention to roadwork, were decided on.

•Evidently tho close proximity of the calling up of the Second 'Division has no effect on the price of land. A farm Is reported to have changed hands on the Opua road at £9 10s per acre; 10s per aero more than the owner was asking for it last vear.

There is no trouble in finding labor for dairy farms. Amplication for sharemilkers' jobs are more than sufficient for the requirements at present.

Two or three farmers in this district have received first-class offers for their dairv herds and have sold them, and intend to go in for dry stock grazing. Mr. W. C. Dudley has returned from a visit to Botorua.

The Mother General, accompanied by Mother Provincial de" Votre Dame des Mission, paid a, visit to the local Convent of that order recently. This is the first time that the Mother General has visited .the Opunake school. The school children entertained the visitors t6 a school concert.

At the Egmont Coursing Club's meeting at Okato on Saturday the Booker Cup and the sweepstake, with £7 added, was won by Mr. Burgess' Soldier's Child. The Bev. Father Doolaghty's Blue Private was second.

Mr. Higgins, who met with a serious accident at Devonport, and was in the hospital there for a fortnight, arrived home and was laid low again with influenza, but is now making a steady recovery.

A petition has been going around, this district for signatures, to be presented to Parliament, asking for the closing of hotels at 0 p.m. I notice the signatures arc mostly married women, He who runs may' learn—that the better half wants the other half to be home by six o'clock.