INGLEWOOD.

Taranaki Daily News, 28 January 1919, Page 3

INGLEWOOD.

(Our Special Reporter.) The local Scouts are making preparations to ensure the success of the championship meeting to bo held here on Thursday. Last year the boys of this province gave a very creditable display of Scout work, besides carrying out an athletic programme that appealed to all Details have been left to Captain Humphrey and Lieut. C. List. Big entries will contest every event on the programme.

So far entries have been recjived from [the following corps: St. Mary's (New ; Plymouth), Central (New Plymouth), I and Inglewood, whilst it is anticipated that representatives from Hawera, Stratford, and Opunake will also compete. Field events include a mile run, tug-of-war, kicking a football, etc. Residents here are prepared to put up the Opunake lads, whilst the train arrangements are very suitable for the competitors elsewhere. A band of 15 players is coming from New Plymouth, whilst the ladies have intimated their intention of providing refreshments, etc., for spectators and competitors. All that remains to ensure a successful meeting is good Weather.

A horse that bolted this morning was brought up in a novel manner The animal, with a gig attached, registered a good pace through Rata Street, and then met the 7.45 a.m. train from New Plymouth. A well-known commercial traveller, seeing the runaway approaching, opened the window and "shooed" the animal, which promptly sat down on its haunches, pulling up inches off the travelling train, and before it could gather speed again it was promptly held by pedestrians close handy, and a possible accident averted

Evidently Inglewood is matting a forward move In Rata Street new premises are in course of erect ion for the new hou-e furnishers, Messrs Hay leu, Spurdle and Co., whilst in other portions of the town business premises are undergoing alterations and renovations that denote faith in the future. Painters are also kept going, brush hands making the most of the weathei

Mr. J Sutherland, who has been unwell for a few months, is now mending slowly He was making very good progress when the influenza epidemic broke out, and he was one of Tnglewood's victims However, after raanv weeks his friends are pleased to see him moving around again