COUNTRY NEWS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 69, 22 March 1928, Page 11

COUNTRY NEWS.

TE PUKE.

A liulorua cricket team visited Te Puke on Sunday and a very good game was played. tor liuturua. Gousaive made 53. Lewis 17. for Te I'use, Montgomery scored 42, liolfe 33, and Camming 19. Kotorua »uu by 143 to 12$. At the meeting of the Town Board on Monday night, Mr. F. Bostock. who has gone lor a trip to England, was granted six mouths' leave of abscace. The proposed new time-table for the East Coast Kaiiway, which provides for an Auek-laud-Tauranga express, was discussed. It was resolved to send an emphatic protest to the Minister of Public Works against the time-table, pointing out that the arrangements for this service were unsuitable to the eastern portion of the hay. which is the most important part of the line. TAU3CARUHUI.

In the Parish Hall. Tauinarunui. thi- parishioners of the Anglican Church gathered to bid farewell to Mrs. F. Brown and Mis* Olive Brown, who are leaving to reside In (>bnra. The vicar (the ICev. T. I\ Weatherhog) made a presentation to the guests of honour «.-n behalf of the parishioners. Mr. T. E. Haufhor. coaching foreman at the Tauinarunui railway station, has l>een appointed to a similar position at ilarton. Ke will be succeed**! in Tauinarunui by Mr. G. C. Foster, of Auckland. At a meeting of the Taumarunul Borough Council on Tuesday evening a recommendation from the Works Committee was adopted, that tenders be called fop the purchase end removal of the Onsarue River Bridge, which is Mnj replaced by a permanent concrete structure. MATAKAT^. The annual flower show at Tirau wan held last week and was a great sneces*. I The proceeds totalled £101. Mr. F. : | Hockly. M.P.. ofacially opened the show, and announced that the profits would Iw devoted to the Tirau Presbyterian Church Funds. As a result of overtures by the Matamata branch of the New Zealand Farmers* Union, the Minister of Ajrricultnre has advised that the headquarters of the inspector wiH remain at Matamata. and an Inspector will be transferred here shortly. EAETTHL The secretary of the Walmaripn A.P.H! and I. Association annonncea that the show was a flpancial screens. On the year's wrfelns the amneiation will bald its own nfter writinc off ffiS for depredation. A sheep drive In aid of the association's funds Trill he held nert week, and the sheep will be sold on the 30th in«t. Far»ners in the dlsrHet are taking advantage of the continued spell of dry weather, and several large areas have heen bnrnt off doting the past week. A big fire was in evidence on Tuesday in the Parapara district, the smoke from which was carried in hnge volumes for many miles by the wind. Fortcnatelv the wind kept the smoke well above the town, otherwhw con - ditions would have been very nnpleaaant. Arrangements are well in hand for the annual snorts, held under the auspices of the Raetihi Sports Society, which will take place on Saturday. Two attractive features have been added to the programme this year by the inclusion of primary school relay races and a reboots championship race. The programme drawn np this year is the most attractive yet arranged for by the | society, and there is every, indication that the event will prove highly successful. Mr. L Gordon, who was Injured by a falling tree at Messrs. Perham and Linen's mill recently, and suffered injuries to his left leg and body, and who has been an inmnte of the Raetihi Hospital, has sufficiently recovered to be able to retura to hi* home Mrs G. Watkinson. of Auckland. Is on a holiday visit to the town, and Is staying with the Mayoress.