AWATUNA.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue 7380, 5 February 1902, Page 2

AWATUNA.

(FROM OUB OWN CORRBSPONDBNT.)

It haß been said that it is impossible to have too much of a good thing, but this is hardly applicable at the present time to telephone communication with Awatuna. For a long time we have been working hard to get telephone communication, but, now having got it, it seems that it is just a little overdone. For a small place like Awatuna to have two public telephone offices within a mile of each other seems to the majority of the settlers going a little too fast. At the present time there is quite a breeze in the place over the matter. Not so much that there is two offices, but for wanting to change the name of the present post office, and the new office to take the old name. A publio meeting was reld on Friday night, and was very largely attended, 40 to 50 being present. Mr Watson was voted to the chair. He having explained the whole matter, and read the correspondence that had passed, the following resolutions were unanimously passed: — 1. That all the correspondence, with explanation, be forwarded to the Hon. J. G. Ward. 2. That the petition, which has been largely signed, protesting against any change, be also forwarded. 3. That in the event of the Hon. J. G. Ward coming to Opunake, the following gentlemen be a deputation to wait on him, namely: Messrs Mortleman, Briant, Higginson, Chapman and Watson. 4. That this meeting considers that one public telephone office is sufficient for the requirements of the place, and that the one at the Awatuna Post Office be retained, being the most central. February 4th. • j

The Judge paid a compliment to District Court jurors yesterday. He remarked that the two juries who had heard oases that day were most respeotable and intelligent looking.

The most popular thing said by Mr Pirani to his Palmerston constituents was in reference to pensions to South African soldiers (says the Times). Under the amended bill, said Mr Pirani, a lieutenant's wife or widow would receive £170 a year, while the wife of a trooper would only receive something like £8 a year. The troopers they were Bending to South Africa, he said, were every bit as good as the officers, and in many respects he believed they were "a jolly sight better." This statement was greeted with loud applause.

The champion mean person has been found at the Thames. While an old man was in the hospital having his leg amputated some one robbed his whare and left him destitute. The proverbial " Stealing a worm from a blind hen " iB soarcely to be compared with this.*-

In reply to a letter from Mr MoQuire, bringing under notioe the expediency of allowing members of the Egmont National Park Board to travel free on the railway when going to or returning from meetings, the Minister of Railways has replied that " the matter will receive consideration, and you will be communicated with again." Oats for immediate sale. Polypathio Institute representatives are now visiting Stratford.

Yon can depend on ridding your ohil dren of worms with Wade'B Worm Figs tbe wonderful worm worriers, Price Is.—