WHANGAMOMONA NOTES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 87, 19 April 1913, Page 7

WHANGAMOMONA NOTES.

[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] The Sports Club at its meeting last night decided to hold a grand bazaar! in July, to augment the funds of the f Club and the Domain Board. An ac-l tive canvas is to be made of residents and friends to assist. A bazaar wilt lie something new in Whanga, ,and .should prove a success. The Loan and Mercantile Co. held, their monthly sale at Kohuratahi on! Wednesday. There was only a mod-i orate yardhig, and prices (for cattle at least) were easier than last month. The cold weather setting in early has checked the demand somewhat. •MU... General satisfaction was expressed here when news came that the Dreadnought “Xew Zealand” is to visit Xew Plymouth, and we are now waiting to hear that the Railway Department will run excursion trains to enable the country patriots to view the warship. Mr A. McCluggage, of Stratford, is spending a few-days in Whanga and; district. A golf club is being formed here •or the winter months. A nine hojej course has been prepared on the Domain and sections adjacent. There are a good many golf enthusiasts resident! here and new members are coming l in fast. I

Railway pay-day has come and gone, it was one of the quietest on record, tiie bulk of the men now being far ahead of the township. Mrs Hassell returned on Tuesday night from a month’s holiday in Wellington.

The Public Works train now comes to within about 200 yards of the township, and we have now the long-looked-for pleasure'of hearing at frequent intervals the engine puffing and whistling at our very door. We are no more a backblocks community. Airs Dean lias returned from New Plymouth and is rapidly becoming convalescent and something like her old self again. Mr Lester Mills is staying here for a fortnight’s holiday. Mr George Trask has returned from Sydney, and intends settling hero with his brother on the Kohuratahi Road. A billiard tournament is being held hero next week for a gold medal, presented by Mr J. Rothery. Large entries are expected.* At the inquest touching the death of Daniel Cleary, who died at Kohuratahi on Tuesday, a verdict of “death from natural causes” was returned, and a strong rider was added to bring under the Government’s notice the fact that hundreds of men were being fjcnt oji to Public Works in this district and no provision whatever made to have a medical practitioner within reasonable reach (the nearest being at Stratford), and urging that the Government take immediate step;; to place a doctor hero.