HENLEY.
January 6. —Once more we have bidden farewell to the old year. But, oh, such weather! It would seem as though the South Pole had broken away from its moorings and drifted on to our coast. The farmer has no encouragement at all. He has to snatch a day when he can get out to work, and put the turnips and other winter crops in. We have had a fair number of visitors during the holidays—a number staying at th© White House. Epidemic—The influenza scourge came to us. and left' its mark in our midst, taking away Mr James Dyer (surfaceman on the railway) and Mr James Taylor, who was a very popular man. He left here some time sgo to take up work ©-t a sawmill in Soit-n----land. With fine spirit he milked the cows of a setiler who, with all his family, had been stricken down. Taylor contracted the disease, and after a gallant fight succumbed in the Riverton Hospital. A large number .assembled at the Henley Railway Station to pay the last respect to his mortal remains, which were interred in the O.tokia Cemetery.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3382, 8 January 1919, Page 23
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