OPUNAKE.

Taranaki Daily News, 9 January 1920, Page 3

OPUNAKE.

(From Our Own Correspondent.) The monthly meeting of the. Town Board was held on Monday evening, the members present being: Messrs C A Trotter (chairman), G." W. Rogers, and ■»- 1. Burton. There was very little business transacted. The sanitary proposals were advanced towards a definite point, when the Board instructed the clerk to get the conditions of contract drafted. The local butcher (Mr. Barraelough) has had some sheep grazing on "the Recreation Grounds. A surprise was in store for the drover the other morning when he went up to a supposedly live sheep and found that it had been killed and skinned. The mutton was taken away, but the sheepskin with entrails, was placed so as to resemble a sheep on the meadows.

There are a number of visitors to the local beach. It should be a cheap proposition for visitors to procure their own tent, get a fishing line, and obtain pleasure at a reasonably low cost.

Opunake, like other places, had a good Christmas from a business point of view The death of Mrs. D. Markham came as a shock to her many friends hereShe was a very prominent patriotic worker, and was a generous assistant in all our local organisations for the past twenty-five years.

It was stated at the last meeting of the Town Board that the sanitary system would probably come into force' in February. This will be accepted as "about time."

The Manaia-Opunake mail service proprietors now run a large bus from Manaia to Opunake. Opunake is well provided in regard to passenger service from Opunake to Hawera. " A person can leave Wellington by the mail train and reach Opunake in'time for a late tea.

We do not hear much about the Opunake hydro-electric scheme, or the harbor scheme. Like the Opunake railway, &sy Mft ft Ixttut, tint* ?,■*>!s&