INGLEWOOD.

Taranaki Daily News, 19 July 1922, Page 6

INGLEWOOD.

(From Our Own Correspondent.) July 18. By the death of Mr. William Davis, of Waiongona, Inglewood, which took place on Sunday, one of the very earliest links ■ in the chain connecting the settlement of , Taranaki’s hinterland with the originally settled portion of the old provincial district was severed. When the Moa Block, the first of Taranaki’s backblocks to be tackled, was being surveyed in the early ’seventies, the late Mr. Davis was living with his parents on the Wortley Road, near Manutahi North, now Lepperton, and as a lad attended school there. Later the family moved on to the property acquired by fyfr. W. Davis, senr., on the Lepper and Hursthouse Roads, in the Tarurutangi district, separated only from the Moa Block by the Waiongona Stream, and situated within easy reach of the then infant township of Inglewood. From his new home the late Mr. Davis attended the Inglewood boys’ school as a pupil under the late Mr. W. H. J. Tobin, Inglewood’s first schoolmaster. Since these days of this district Mr. Davis had resided here on the same farm until after the death of his parents. Latterly he had lived on a farm purchased by him on the Waiongona, beyond the north boundary of Inglewood County. Always of a retiring disposition, he had taken no prominent part in the public affairs «f the neighborhood, but Tor all that he was well known to all the older settlers and was highly esteemed as a neighbor. Mr. Davis was unmarried. His sister, Mrs. Pattie, of Johnsonville, survives him, and to her the sympathy of her old friends here is extended.

A football match was played on Saturday at Inglewood between teams representing the Tarata and Inglewood State Schools, when the Inglewood boys, captained by Cliff Corkill, proved too good for the visiting team. The game throughout was played in the best spirit of friendly rivalry, and the Tarata boys, although they were defeated on this occasion, deserve praise for the plucky, manly way they accepted their position. After the game the pupils of the Inglewood school regaled the team with a hearty luncheon, which was most gratefully accepted and as fully appreciated. Cheers and counter-cheers concluded the meeting, which it is hoped will but be the first of a long series of similar contests.

The eighth round of the Inglewood amal- 1 gamated cribbage clubs’ tournament was ’ played on Monday night last. The scores I were: Fire Brigade 30 v. Kaimiro 23; Druids 25 v. Bristol Road 22; Kaimata 27 v. Foresters 22; Bowlers and Bacon Factory a bye. The draw for the ninth round, to be played on Monday, 24th inst., is: Bacon Factory v. Foresters; Bowlers v. Eire Brigade; Druids v. Kaimiro; Kaimata v. Bristol Road.