WAITARA.
(From Our Own Correspondent.) Sept. 4. The Waitara Choral Society, which has about 40 members, proposes giving'its lirrst concert on Thursday, Sept. 18, in St. John's Hall. They have been practising steadily for some months now, and intend to submit a programme of glees iind madrigals, which should appeal to lovers of music. Miss Bedford, elocutionist, and Mr. W. .1. Smith, well known to Waitara audiences, will take part, also Mr. I/. G. Newton's orchestra. The committee to arrange for a .-ioldiers' welcome home f.ocial met on Monday night, there being an attendance of '2O ladies and six gentlemen. Various committees were and arrangements put in,hand. It was decided not (o send invitation cards but to advertise in the New Plymouth and Waitara papers. Mr. \V. J. Thomas, who was in business as a tailor in Waitara before the war, was expected back last night. During the war he saw service with the aerial forces.
The. s.s. Durham is expected in the [Waitara roadstead on Saturday or Sunlay next. ' A roll of honor board, containing the names of five members and two ex-mem-bers of the local Are brigade, is on view m Mr. E, Dean's window. It will be l;ept permanently in the fire station. The Fire, Brigade social, in aid of a comrade in distress, was held last night. There was a large attendance, and it should have been a success financially, as it undoubtedly was from a dancer's point of view. Mr. T. Proctor and Mr. W'. Spurdle were M.C.'s, and the music vviis supplied by Mr M. Fowler and B. Murgatroyd. Extras were, played by Mr. J. Taylor, Mr. M. Feek, and Miss Skelton. After the dance, the provisions left over were disposed of to willing purchasers, and quite a tidy sum Was realised.
Mr. E. Beekbessinger had his shop window broken on Sunduy night or Monday morning, and several packages of Winchester rifle cartridges taken. Evidently the window was broken to get tho cartridges, as nothing else was' taken. The death of Mr. Thomas Longstaff makes one more gap in the ranks of the early pioneers. He landed at New Plymouth in 1575, and took up land on the Henwood Road, retiring from dairying about twenty years ago. He has been living with his daughter (Mrs. E. Jones, of Waitara), for some time. He was 97 years of age, and leaves behind eight children, 49 grand-children, 09 great-grand-children, and ono great-great grandchild.
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Taranaki Daily News, 5 September 1919, Page 6
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