INGLEWOOD.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 February 1922, Page 6

INGLEWOOD.

IT’S NEVER TOO LATE TO MEND. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Every thinking member of the community must surely feel regret that no opportunity -was given us to welcome our Canadian cousin, Miss Lewis, to Inglewood on her arrival here nor even to show her the common courtesy she had a right to expect. * Selected to visit this outlying member of the Imperial family of states as a representative of the most important branch of all the national undertakings, education, Miss Lewis was directed at once to Inglewood from Auckland as soon as she disembarked from the s.s. Niagara. She acted promptly on her instructions, reaching New Plymouth on Saturday morning per s.s. Rarawa, and Inglewood by train the same afternoon. But no one here, it seems, has had definite advice of her advent, so when she arr.-ved no one was at the station to meet her ami no steps had been taken to secure even ordinary temporary accommodation for a stranger in a strange land, come to us as much for our benefit as for her own. Surely her first impression of her new* home must have been most disappointing, and first impressions are hard to eradicate. Who deserves blame for the initial muddle it would be hard to say, nor does it really matter just now. The first duty of our people here is to show their reI gret in a manner that cannot be mistaken, by doing all in their power to make Miss Lewis’ stay here a pleasant one and showing their hearty goodwill to our visitor at the welcome to be offered to her on Thursday evening at the Parish Hall.

Tn proof that the decline in the dairy market has not killed the enterprise of the dairy farmers hereabouts, it will be noticed that the Inglewood Jersey Cattle Club is holding a meeting on Saturday afternoon in Mr. Messenger’s offices, when Mr. V. Harkness, of Tariki, w’ill address those present on “Line Breeding.” Members of the public who are interested, though not yet members of the club, will be welcomed.