KAITANGATA NOTES.

Otago Witness, Issue 3102, 27 August 1913, Page 37

KAITANGATA NOTES.

(Frou Our Own Correspondent.) KAITANGATA. August 25. A sale of work in aid of the Stirling Presbyterian Church funds was held in the local Church Hall on Wednesday last, and was largely attended. In every way it was a great success. Articles were supplied by the members of the congregation and the public generally, and the takings were £3l.' The annual ball held by the. local Oddfellows’ Lodge took place in Wilson’s Hall on Friday last, and, as usual, was of the high order of its predecessors. Music was supplied by a Dunedin band, and the catering was carried out in first class style. The attendance was, approximately, 60 couples. Traffic was resumed as usual on the Kaitangata line on Thursday morning, the break in the line having been sufficiently repaired during the interval by the mine relaying gang, ( The washout on the Taratu railway line has also been repaired, and the train conveying the coal from Taratu to Loved’s Flat was able to make the journey on Wednesday last. The door prize for the last night of the Catholic bazaar was drawn at Robertson’s Pictures on Saturday last, the winner being Mrs W. Smyth, Kaitangata. The takings for the bazaar for the four nights was £lsl. The only nomination for the vacant seat on the Borough Council, caused by the resignation, through illness, of Cr W. Coulter, was Mr William Wilson, and he has been duly elected. Mr Wilson is an cxMayor, and his services will no doubt he much appreciated and welcomed, more particularly at the present juncture, when the vexed question, the “ Clyde street break.” will have to bo faced.