DISTRICT NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 29 October 1920, Page 2

DISTRICT NEWS.

KAIMATA. (From Our Own Correspondent.) The Rataplko corresponrient'3 glowing ac count of the file past the pavilion of the teams which played "footer" there a fort night ago was surely a feather in the cup of that district; hut if he had chanced to stroll on' the local footer grounds last Mon day and had seen the Kalmata "reps" drawn up before the grandstand with the Icoal bind in full attendance, he would have had to admit tr.at this Indeed was something to scrawl a rcw lines about. The missing link, however, was the absence of the Ratapll;o footers, who did not invade our territory, an incident that our boys have been looking to happen for a fortnight, bin in ,vain. In these dull days we at leust can boast ot a. Uttle amusement at times, and the latest slice of amusement came a day or two bick when an Inhabitant of the district gave a great exhibition in doing an "acrobatic stunt" by turning somersaults with a horse and dray. The feat was performed without a hitch, amidst great applause from the onlookers. Great disappointment was felt here ..n Labor Day through tho sports meeting, which was to have been hold, having to be abandoned owing to the heavy downpour Howler, a litlte rain has its virtues, and the residents of one road here are hoping it will continue to enable them to Improvo their traffic problem, by converting the so called road Into a "canal."