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WAITARA.

(From Our Own Correspondent.) Waitara, Feb. 25. A largely attended meeting of the Chamber of Commerce was held last evening. Mr E. Beckbessinger was elected president, and Mr A! W. Ogle, who declined to take the presidency, was elected vice-president. Mr Marlow was re-elected secretary. It was decided to advocate the advantages of the port as widely as possible and to hold regular meetings on the fourth Monday in each mijiith. I understand that Messrs Borthwick and Sons have completed arrangements with the Railway Department to put in « siding to connect the works with the branch line. This should effect a considerable saving in transferring coal from the trucks to the works, and as it Will go„past the chambers it will facilitate loading, if meat at any time is required to be shipped to New Plymouth. The programme for the school carnival is published and, given fine weather a good crowd is hoped for. Master E. Arms, a pupil of the Stratford District High School, and son of Mr A. Arm 3, is to be congratulated on the position he took in the Public Service en trans 2 examination, being second in the Dominion. A meeting of the Waitara Seaside Improvement and Surf-bathing Society, is to be held on Friday night to make arrangements and to draw up a programme for their annual picnic and Ta'bor Shield competition, The Tabor Shield competition will have to start about 11.30 a.m., as tliat is about the time of liitrh water and the contest must be finished within one hour after high water. It would have been better had the tide been an afternoon one so that business people could have got there without having to close their shops early (as I believe the Seaside Society is going to ask them to do), but time and tide wait for no man. and it could not be arranged otherwise. The Seaside Committee are working at the ladies' shed in order to have it corns pleted by the day of the picnic. A lad named Wiseman, who resides here, met with a nastv accident on the wharf on Saturday. "Fe was ridin? his bicycle along the wharf and the pedal appears to have caught the timber on the edge, between the launch Marokopa and the wharf, h'u ley striking the launch, fh - 'arnpbell set the let* and the b-rr is now doing well. He wa.-s verv lucky in rot being more severelv injured. The death occurred on Sunday of Mr Thos- Smith, who had recently taken up His residence in Waitara. ' He was hnried to-day. Several members of the Foresters' Lodire, of which he was a mem bar. attended the funeral.

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Taranaki Daily News, 26 February 1919, Page 3

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Tapeke kupu
447

WAITARA. Taranaki Daily News, 26 February 1919, Page 3

WAITARA. Taranaki Daily News, 26 February 1919, Page 3

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