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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 62, 27 October 1911, Page 5

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NOTES BY OtJIl TRAVELLING REPORTER. Mr L. Klee, of Whangamomona, has taken over Mr Steve Fahey’s hairdressing saloon, and intends adding another department shortly. The wet weather experienced of late has caused another slip on the road at the back of the Ngatimaru railway station, and others are reported all over the hack-country districts. Mr A. Brodie, manager of Messrs Court and Cottier’s butchery business at Whangamomona, lias returned after a brief holiday. Mr Harry Mardaunt, who h,as been spending a well-earned holiday in the Wanganui district for the past few weeks, has returned to Whangamomona. The necessary timber for the erection of the railway bridges on the Whangamomona side of the tunnel is arriving, and some is at present at the 33-mile siding. . The Whangamomona tunnel is expected to be completed by about February next. In order to provide amusement tor the summer months, the residents of Te Wera have formed a Tennis Club, with a large membership. A start has already been made in the direction of getting the courts in order. The following letter was received by the clerk of the Whangamomona County Council from a Maori ratepayer:—“Kaimauuka, Oct. 13, 191-——■ to the clock of the county council whangamomona —Dear sir, Ive got your letter which you send me on the 26 of September telling me to pay the £lB 13s (id for the rate, dear sir 1 dont now the Maori name of the land and I want you to tell me the name and tell me the name of my mate on the land and I want to now it the,, ■' paying to. Yours ” - Contractors at present must have their hands full, as not a single tender was received by the Whangamomona County Council for contracts 28 and 29, the nature of the work being formation and felling and clearing.- . At the conclusion of . the Whangamomona County Council meeting on Wednesday, being the last meeting of the present Council, Cr Mcllroy took the opportunity of expressing his thanks to the chairman and fel-low-councillors for the manner in which they had always treated him a. the Council table, and he said he was sorry he could not see his way clear to stand again at the coming election. The chairman also expressed his thanks. The services of the officials of the : Council were also recognised by a vote, of thanks. ■ WhangaTnomona’s need for a doctor was again evidenced on Tuesday, when Mr Inbright, a new arrival in the district, and who has been employed by Messrs Court and Cottier as a driver, mot with a painful accident. If appears that he was driving along in' tne vicinitv of the Mold Gorge, Tahora, when the waggon gave a lurch throwing Mr Inbright off, with the result , that ,he fell under the .wheels, which passed over one of his legs, breaking it above the ankle.' Fiom what I can learn the unfortunate man lay on the side of the road where the/ accident happened for about five or six hours, with the horses standing quietly alongside, before he was found, and word sent to Mr Court, who at once proceeded to the scene a-lid brought the sufferer into Whangamomona, arriving about 8,30 p.m. He received first aid from Mr L. - ,Klee, and was lodged at Mrs Court’s temperance , hotel for the night.. On Wednesday : ihOTnin^ 'Mr Brodm took the sufferer to Te Wera, in order to catch the train for Stratford for medical treatment. The distance from where the accident happened to Stratford is between 50 and 60 miles. it is worthv of mention that the cortland waggon that took Mr Inbright to Te Wera also met with disaster on the . return to Whangamomona, having got smashed up on the saddle, where it now lies. ■ Mr R. McCluggage, of Pohokura, tells me that he has had several lambs worried by canines during the last few days. West’s Pictures opened at Whangamomona Town Hall on Wednesday evening for a three nights season, when there was a fair and appreciative audience. The pictures screened were a fine lot, the principal ones beicg “Our Miss' Gibbs,” “Microbes, and i “An Indian’s Romance.” The conipanv intends paying a monthly visit. Te Wera was visited on Tuesday evening,, when there was a good house.