DISTRICT NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 313, 27 May 1913, Page 7

DISTRICT NEWS.

TABIKI. (From our Own Correspondent). Mr. Bert Fenwick, of Waipuku, has sold his fine dairy farm to an Eltham gentleman. Mr. Fenwiek, who has been identified with Tariki for a number of years, is highly respected throughout the district, where he enjoys a reputation for being a thoroughly up-to-date and successful farmer. The pending departure of himself and family is universally regretted. In a recent issue your Stratford correspondent, in referring to scholastic matters, ventilated a Tariki grievance re children attending the High School not being able to travel by the mail train except when stopped to take up a passenger for beyond Hawera. This circumstance is one of the many which place the country children at a disadvantage in educational matters. There are seven children attending the High School from here, and several throughout the year have regularly reached the station at mail train time on the chance of it stopping. To accomplish this, means to some of them, who milks cows and live some distance from the station, that they have to rise at a very early hour in the morning. Every time the- mail runs through without stopping they lose an hour's schooling, in addition to the wasted effort of getting there and the tedious waiting for the next train. Surely the five minutes' delay of stopping the mail five days in the week would be warranted when it means for seven pupils practically 35 hours of tuition. I understand that a football match ot considerable local interest is to be played on Mr. Young's ground on Thursday next, when the married men will match themselves against the Territorials. It is considered by some to be a "sure' tiling" for the iatter, but rumor has it that the married team includes the names of some veterans of the game that might strike terror into the soul of even ' the most valiant Territorial. Mr. fc, Hancock has disposed of his wheelwright and blacksmithing business to Mr. T. Therkleson. Mr. Hancock has been in business in Tariki for the last 15 years, during which time he has always taken a prominent part in public mattery. Both he and Mrs. Hancock would be greatly missed by a large eirele of. friends should they decide to leave Tariki, and I feel certain that if the report that Mr. Hanccok intends taking up land in the locality prove to be correct it will meet with general approbation.