OTOROHANGA NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16098, 11 December 1915, Page 10

OTOROHANGA NEWS.

"*. — BUTTER FACTORY PROPOSAL. '"■% [tbox Orß own- OOKREsrO.V DiM."' OroßcteA-NXi, Friday. A Lakge gathering of local farmers wag held to consider the offer of the Te Kuiti " Dairy Company to erect a factorv jj, 5 Otorohanga, to work under the adjrjaw- .ill tration of the present company, exteaded • * to include proportional representation 0 { * Otorobanga. Mr. J. A. Ormaby presided. - Mr. Somerville, a director, urged tie advan- "M tage of the offer, pointing out that with '?■ the security of the proposed 1300-cow - aar . 0r antee and the assets of the company at 5 j Te Kuiti, more money could be obtained '" immediately than Otorohanga alone could ' hop© to command. A 5000-cow factory X would be built, and if the proposal wa< - to be adopted he urged the signing of tie I f document, bo that the machinery could be "m ordered this month to ensure its delivery 1 -'f| in time for the factory bo start work next October. A resolution, proposed . and t■'• % s-iconded, by Messrs. Corboy and Roberts, i was rmanimously passed approving of the •cheme being carried out, and a canvass 'ill of the district being, immediatelv under- ''1 taken to secure the full sizmnh of th»*#?J guarantee. ~ A* the monthly meeting of the Town -. ■ Council rt was decided to charge £2 each for the three patriotic entertainments re-" ; -" cently held in the Town Hal], and to 1 refund to the Patriotic Committee £6 £?" v nj- Was » olve d to sell the old i|§ library baildmg and buy books with the " - - "proceeds, SSM Prior to his departure to Tiran, Mr EJdson, postmaster at Otorohanga, and" ' Mrs. Kidson •were met by the post ofgre/ 'Mr «taff, and presented wifh a fountain pea *'-' and a surer epergne respectivelT. • -*'/{< The services m connection" with the anniversary of the Presbyterian Church *' were conducted by the Rev. F M~ ; Beattie, of Te-Kuiti. Large congre'-' •:■ cation attended. - Solos were Xg . 'S 2 *&* & .McLean, and the choir me front. At the anniversary social muajcal items were jnven by Mrs, a&SBBg . Miss >? lar,< !? e : Mr*. Parry. Miss Jofcp- I i son, }**% mn? iOss McGettigan. and '< ' ¥Lt CW^-* t ili£s **»«-d Mr-. ■■ ******. PWJM «ie accompaniments. An entertainmg competition was won bv Miss ti D. Johnson and Mr. L. Ciarid-e " " -"1 . * ' - *kil