WAITARA.

Taranaki Daily News, 12 April 1922, Page 6

WAITARA.

(From Our Own Correspondent.) April 11. The New Plymouth Regimental Band recital, given in the Camp Reserve, Waitara, on Sunday last, was listened to by a fair number of people. The weather looked threatening, and no doubt this kept a good many away. A splendid programme was rendered, and it was a musical treat to lovers of musk. We have a grandstand on the above reserve, and one cannot understand why it was not opened to the public for the recital; and then again it would have been decent courtesy vo have supplied seating accommodation for the visiting bandsmen. Why this apathy? At the conclusion of the recital the band was the guest of the Mayor at afternoon tea at “Bello View.”

Motorists travelling over Mt. Messenger are experiencing trouble by getting stuck in the mud. Mr. Will McKenzie, on Saturday evening, got into a hole, and when backing to get out the brakes failed him, with the result that the car went over tie hill and dropped about 60 feet. Mr. McKenzie and a lady passenger were fortunate enough to be thrown elear. It is to be regretted that an irregularity in business holidays will be in evidence for Easter. The drapers and clothiers are observing the half-holiday to-morrow (Wednesday), and will be open all day on Saturday, whilst the grocers and several other shops close from the Thursday night to Tuesday morning, the 18th inst. The Waitara Chamber of Commerce forwarded a telegram to the Postmas-ter-General protesting against the P. and T. Officers’ Association being permitted to affiliate with the Alliance of Labor, and offering to support any action the Government may deem it wise to take.

I am advised that big entries have been received for the Soldiers’ and Civilians’ Club’s sports, which are being held on the Camp Reserve on Easter Monday. The bicycle races are expected to be particularly good, and the seven-aside football tournament will be a good entertainment. Mr. Newstroski, of Waitara, when digging in his garden recently, came across a fourpenny silver piece dated 1854. Not many of these coins are in circulation at the present time.