TAIHAPE NOTES.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 12018, 23 March 1920, Page 5

TAIHAPE NOTES.

The gross receipts in connection with the sports meeting and concert at Taihape on 17th March will total abont £SOO. The spell of fine weather was broken on Thursday when a very heavy downpour of rain occurred and continued intermittently till Saturday. Dair5 T farmers have had a remarkably good season so far, and supplies of cream to the factory at Oimtn are still being maintained, Mr W R Stevens, who has left for Australia, was entertained at a valedictory gathering on Thursday, which was 1 ? largely attended by representatives of the R. S. A., Fire Brigade and sports bodies, Mr Stevens was made the recipient of presentations from the members of each of the bodies represented. Wanganui Education Board has approved of a grant of £330 for additions to the headmaster’s residence at Taihape, and also decided to apply for a grant for a new building at Whaka Road School. Rev W H Hocking, who has been appointed to Roxburgh, was entertained at a farewell gathering at Taoroa last week, and was presented with a travailing rug by the residents, also with a purse of sovereigns by the members of the local branch of the Labour Party. A rather curious position was revealed in a letter from the poundkeeper to the Borough Council at its meeting on Friday. He. asked that the sustenance fees be increased from 2s 6d to 4s per day on account of tiie increased cost of fodder. The Council decided that as the charges were fixed by law, nothing could be dona except to try to have the law amended. The pouudkeepor stated that he had lost £4 Is in sustenance on two horses impounded in the Borough, and the Oouncilldeoided to pay the amount.