COUNTRY NEWS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 42, 19 February 1923, Page 7

COUNTRY NEWS.

a ' T AUMARim UI. At the Taumarunui Post Office on Friday evening the staff met the foreman line_- r man. Mr. W. 11. Johns, to make him a presentation on the eve of his marriage. Tha present took the form of a dinner set. At a public meeting held at Owbango on Thursday. Mr. G. Goodall and Mr. I). Mcl.ean were elected a deputation to wait on the Premier in the endeavour to induce the Government to open a portion of the standing bush adjoining Owbango. and now under the jurisdiction of the State Forestry Department. They are to present a petition signed by the whole of the residents of . Owhango. If the mission proves siier-essrnl I It will relieve the present depression at Owhangn. and give a fillip of activity to tha ' whole district. The land purchase officer. Mr. .T. Thnra- , son, has been operating in Taum.tninal during the past few days, an.l has paid not ' considerable sums lo the natives in connec- • tion with freebolding the town. , To date the collections towards a manl- . cipal band have reached t'-00. Several Im-nl ' | -awmlllers have promise.! to donate the . . timber for n pra.-ti.-e room, unci the band - should soon be a flourishing institution. ' The death occurred at the Taumarun-I I Hospital on Tlle~d_v of -Mrs. 11. Harvey, 'at the nge of 33. The deceased lady was , well known locally, and had lived in the district for several years. She was the I eldest daughter of Mr. W. il. Wackrow, the •' well-known sportsman. , I A former resident of Taumarunui in the person of Mr. A. Cullen. at one time on the II staff of Messrs. Winger an.l Smith, ha a ■ | returned to take up resldenre in this dlsj trict after an absence of eight years in the '! Sooth Island, where he has been managing I the Dunedin Dairy Factory. I The following players have been selected to represent the King Country against Waikato. at Hamilton, on Wednesday nexr: — R. Winger. N. Winger, Sandel, B. Thorn** iPieldn, Jffles. Singe, Gibbons, Christiansen. Allchln, N. Thomas,