OPUNAKE.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 September 1922, Page 7

OPUNAKE.

(From Our Own Correspondent.) The Town Board election on Wednesday was quietly conducted. The returning officer (Mr. A. O’Brien) had the result posted early. The voting was: H. Holmes 125, C. A. Trotter 113, G. Fea ver 100, Dr. Watt 88, A. Richards 85, F. Hammond 81, G. E. Simister 60, J. 0. D. Stewart 58, D. Reardon 44, W. Gunson 3d. The first five were elected. A local party brought a motor launch from Waitara to Opunake on Monday. This is the first boat that has called at our port for I*2 months or more. The launch is a well appointed one, and is used for fishing purposes, and the fishing grounds along this coast will be tried out by the party of Maoris in charge of the launch. At the S.M. Court on Monday, before Mr. Mowlem. the adjourned case of the petitioners applying for realease from the Ihaia Road special rating area was concluded. The court allowed the properties of J. M. and M. Hickey, M. J. Macßeynolds and G. Looney to be included in the special rating area, and disallowed the properties of R. J Campbell and E. G. Baylis, and section 18 of D. D. Sullivan in the special rate for raising a loan to tar seal the Ihaia Road. Thee youths were fined 2s 6d each for throwing stones and breaking a hurricane lamp, the propertv of the power board. A lorry driver (Rook) was fined £2 and 7s costs for failing to give a passing car sufficient space for the oncoming car to pass. The occupants of the car were the chairman, a member, and engineer of the Egmont County Council.

For driving without lights, Geo. Horo was fined £1 and court costs 7s, H. D. Maxwell and V. R. Hodgson for riding bicycles without lights, were each fined 10s.and 7s court costs. James Ritson was convicted for not abating a nuisance created by a tenant on his property. The question of penalty and costs was deferred. E. Corrick was convicted and fined £3 for usincr obscene language in a public place at Rahotu. The language complained of was used during his ejection by the Rahotu hotelkeeper.

Mrs. Winstanley claimed furniture to the value of £49 from J. S. Winstanley. Plaintiff was nonsuited.

It is reported that there have been a fair number of deaths during the last two months among the natives in the Patiki settlement.

Wilson’s Motors, Ltd., intend opening an up-to-date motor garage here. The concrete building is now being erected opposite the post office. Mr. Astbury, the Liberal candidate, paid a visit to this part of the constituency during the week. A number of local returned soldiers have sent in their names for enrolment to the defence office at Hawera and New Plymouth.