WAITARA.

Taranaki Daily News, 7 November 1918, Page 3

WAITARA.

(From o«qt Own Correspondent.) November 4. The conclusion of an armistice with Austria, like the unconditional surrender of Turkey, was again the occasion ol a public meeting ill front of the post ofliee. A large crowd of people, I should say fully 1000, gathered there at four o'clock to celebrate the event and to hear patriotic speeches by the Mayor and the Rev. Mr, Gavin. The town was beflaggpd and presented quite a holiday appearance. The children fJtom the public school and from the convent marched from the school to the post office, and, as nearly every child had a flag, it added no little to the gaiety of the scene. The band played several selections and the demonstration ended with three cheers for the King, for the Army and Navy, and for our own boys, and by the band playing "God Save the- King/' I understand that a gang of men are at work getting the barges which went ashore in the recent gale moved down the beach so that they may be refloated next spring tides. The extent, of the damage sustained by the barges is no! yet definitely known, but it is feared that one of them has been somewhat knocked about.

The school baths are nearing completion, the bath itself being quite finished and the walls round it should be finishl ed in a few days. The contractor has been much delayed by the weather and •the difficulty of obtaining shingle and cement, or he would have been finished before this. When finished, I have no hesitation in saying the baths will compare favorably with any baths in Taranaki and will be a credit to the town. The borough foreman (Sir J. Jamieson) has resigned his position, having been offered a better appointment at Tailiape. A sale of work was held on Thursday last in St. John's Hall by the Ladies' Guild of the Presbyterian Church. The sale was well patronised and a considerable sum handed to the trustees for the building fund.