DISTRICT NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 May 1919, Page 3

DISTRICT NEWS.

TARIKI. (ttr-em Our Travelling Reporter). May 7. Last evening the hall was crowded to overflowing, the occasion heing the welcome home social tendered to the following soldiers recently back from the front: E. James, W. Laurence, D. Kendrick, R. Thompson, P. G. Kettlewell, E. J. Kilsby, H. Bridgeman and J. Roche. In expressing appreciation at seeing the soldiers once again in their midst and gratification that the great war was happily ended, Mr. A. E. Laurence, chairman of the Patriotic Committee, said he desired to pay a tribute to the work of the ladies. During the war 105 soldiers had been farewelled, and the ladies had kept busy continuously in a hundred different ways. It had been suggested that the young ladies might relieve those getting up in years in supervising these welcomes, but the ladies who took on the duties from the outset were desirous of also participating in the welcome homes, and deserved the heartiest thanks of the district for their work, He mentioned that in some quarters the men returning were receiving mementoes in the shape of addresses, etc., hut the Tariki Committee, after going into the question, decided it would cost £lO to do it properly to each soldier, and so dropped it. However, from time to time they hoped to give the boys in khaki as royal- a welcome its they received that evening. The music for the dance was supplied by Miss Curd, and. Messrs Sutherland and Stockman, of Inglewood, and proved particularly welcome, whilst several musical and vocal items assisted to make the evening a pleasant and memorable one.

Sheep are still proceeding north at a steady pace, the railway lines being filled at times with stock bound for the Smart road and Waitara works. There are times when the ."school train" fails to cross at Inglewood and gets hung up here in consequence. In cold weather this is not desirable, but the fault does not lay with our stationmaster (Mr. R. ffoskin) 'who is ever on the alert with the trail 1 officials to secure the prompt despatch of this and other trains. Whilst annoying to passengers having to travel late it is generally conceded that all promptness is shown in despatching trains and the remedy appears to be in securing more powerful and faster engines or reducing the loads.