TAIHAPE NOTES.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 12187, 26 October 1920, Page 4

TAIHAPE NOTES.

Prom Cur Own Correspondent. The football season was wound up with a smoke concert at which the trophies won daring the season were presented. The gold medals for the best seven a side team were presented to Pirates, and that Club was also formally presented with the Cup which lias been won twice in succession. The president of the Union, Mr G. W. Wrightson, who is about to leave the district, was presented with a suitable souvenir of his connection with the Union. Other presentations made were to J. Rose, by the Pirates Club, on the occasion of his leaving the district; to Mr L. Dean, who has jofhed the benedicts; and to Mr H. J. Clemance, who has been transferred to Balls. A rather novel request came before the Borough Council at its meeting on Friday, when the Wellington Acclimatisaiion Society asked that the Council should instal a fish ladder at the Borough dam across the Hautapu river. The Society explained that the dam interfered with the movements of trout up and down stream, and also requested that the Society be notified whenever the dam is being emptied so that officials of the Society could be present to protect the fish as much as possible. The requests were agreed to. The driver of a seven team attached to a heavy load of timber which was being conveyed to the railway on Gibbs’ sawmill tramline at Utiku, had a remarkable escape from death one day last week. A bridge over which the load was being ' conveyed collapsed without warning and precipitated the driver, trollies and the seven .horses into the gully about thirty feet below, The horses were mixed op in a struggling mass and the sawn timber was scattered in all directions. Fortunately, the driver came down on top of the debris, and beyond sustaining some severe cuts and bruises was not seriously injured. It is stated that the horses seemed to be aware that something was amiss, as they stopped on the down grade approaching the bridge and refused to move until the driver forced them to take the bridge. O the seven horses only one was sof seriously injured that it had to be destroyed. Some years ago, another bridge belonging to the same firm collapsed with a team of horses and a load of logs, and on that occasion two men lost their lives.