TAIHAPE NOTES.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLI, Issue 11700, 21 October 1916, Page 5

TAIHAPE NOTES.

From Our Own Correspondent, Farmers of the district are holding a meeting on Wednesday next at the Fire Brigade Hall to discuss the question of stock auctioneers’ charges. The question of accommodation at the Taihape Hospital was discussed at Wednesday’s meeting of the Wanganui Hospital Board and it was decided to enlarge the building by the addition of nurse’s quarters and an isolation ward. The extensions will probably cost between £IOOO and £I2OO.

Sergt,-Major Tuckey has been not] itiod to send as many men as possible to camp on Wednesday next. The local golf season will conclude in about another week, the great growth of grass proving too big an obstacle for play. The final of the competition for the Bray trophy was got oft' during the week, the winner being Mr P. E. Wabeman. The Taihape Women’s Working Club has of late received many letters from the hoys at the front stating that the many parcels have arrived in good order, and that the good work of the Tailiape women is highly appreciated by the lads in the trenches. On Thursday last news was received that Herman Smith, son of Mrs C. Smith, of Taihape, bad been killed in action in France. Herman was the fourth boy of the family to go to the front, Eric and Frank being still in France, while Ralph is amongst the wounded in hospital in London. All the young fellows were exceedingly popular and Mrs Smith will have the sypmathy of the whole community in her great loss.