WAITARA.

Taranaki Daily News, 5 December 1919, Page 5

WAITARA.

(From Our Own Correspondent.) Dec. 4. The frozen meat which was supposed to be loaded on the Kia Ora here has had to be trucked to New riymouth on account of the neap tides and there not being sufficient water on the bar to make it safe to tow the barges. A meeting of members of the Returned Soldiers' Association was held on Tuesday night, and it was decided to call a public meeting to make clear the proposals re forming a club here. It is hoped to make the club available to all sections of the community. If it is decided at the public meeting that it is desirable to form a club the matter of securing premises will be gone into. Mr. G. Bird has been appointed secretary to the Freezing Works Union, in place of Mr. H. M- Lind, resigned. We are glad to see Mr. Bert Topless, who sustained a fracture of the leg some weeks ago, is at home again, but it will be seme weeks yet before he will be able to resume work. One or two teams from the Clifton Rowing Club are practising on the river, and it would seem as if the sport of rowing is going to have a new lease of life at Waitara. A meeting of members of the Waitara Club is called for Friday evening to consider the question of amalgamating with the Clifton Club. If this were done, the concern would have a good set of boats, as the Waitara Club has several good boats, and with the ones the Clifton Club have the Club should be a strong one. A sale of work was? held in the Clifton Hall this afternoon in support of the Tanners' candidate, Miss Fileon Cudby, in a carnival which is being held.