TAIHAPE.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 89, 15 April 1913, Page 7

TAIHAPE.

The Eginont Box . Company's .Mill at Ohutu, near Talhape, is at present cutting cheese and butter boxes for: stock", in readiness for uext spring. A quantify of building material is r also being cut for "the Taranakl farmers who are shareholders. Excluding the outside stuff, twenty-nine hands are. at work. ' A new railway siding will' be shortly put in, and bales of box pieces will then be'loaded into trucks from the mill. A Berlin pianing machine of the most up-to-date pattern in' the Dominion has beeu Installed," hnd is giving satisfaction. ■'"' '":■'.' • '•-■■:■ . •■-■"• The annual meeting of the Old Boys' Fbotbali Club to be held on Saturday 'night lapsed for want of a quorum." Football is in'a precarious state'herei and the sub"union will'have to 'devise' some' scheme' to get enough senior teanw' to'keep' the competitions' alive: ' Hockey' seems' to' be dusking football out on the Main TTtiiik.''Tit one time there were six senior teams in Talhape sub-nnlqn, and" teams" at Utiku", Mangiiwcka, .Ohlngalti,'"' HunfervHle, Rata. Marton, and Bulls last year there were no teams at all playing in the RangUlkei sub-union. ' The Marton, Huntervllle,' Bulls, Rata, and Ohingaitl , teams dropped out last season, and with them thedlsappearahce of' the sub-union. TTbere'has'been no Rugby team at Mangaweba and Utiku for some years. Present indications point to trouble being experienced in raising even two teams to Taihape district this' year; last season there were four. Hockey clubs, however, flourish in all these even at Utiku. The Main Trunk: hockey reps, are a good combination, and [last year beat the Wanganui representatives.