TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 59, Issue 4186, 15 September 1939, Page 4

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO

AS REPORTED IN THE WAIPA POST, 15th SEPTEMBER, 1914. War news; Germans in retreat on the Western Front; they have already fallen back 62 miles. Six thousand prisoners and fifteen guns were captured in four days. The French have captured the entire artillery of an army corps. The Russians are pressing the Germans and Austrians hard on the Eastern Front.

Te Awamutu ladies’ hockey team at Te Kuiti to-morrow is: Mrs Bathurst and Misses Dodd, Harris, Olphci't. R. Verner, O’Brien, Mclntos, E. Hutt, Wallace, M. Verner, H. Verner.

Plans of the proposed new municipal offices, library, and reading room are now displayed in a local shop window.

The contract price for the new Methodist Church was £1241, exclusive of bricks, sand, etc., so the total cost is expected to be about £l5OO. When excavating for a new footpath in Park Road yesterday two workmen unearthed a very much decayed coffin. The burial place was not marked in any way. The Ohaupo Dramatic Club is to stage “ Between Two Fires” at the local Town Hall next Monday evening. The proceedings will be devoted to the Patriotic Fund. Mr W. M. Alexander, LL.B., was last week admitted as a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court. He is a son of Mr C. M. Alexander, of Mangapiko. The Commission to investigate the objections to formation of Te Awamutu town district as a borough is to sit next Friday. The average attendance of pupils of Te Awamutu School during August was 185.5, and the roll number is steadily increasing. Four and three-quarter columns of this issue are occupied by letters to the editor, nearly all of the letters being on the subject of Town Board versus Borough Council advantages.