DISTRICT NEWS

Taranaki Daily News, 16 March 1928, Page 14

DISTRICT NEWS

TARIKI. (From Our Own Correspondent.) At a meeting recently held in the Tariki Hall, which was particularly well attended by football enthusiasts and supporters, a club, to be known as the Tariki Football Club, was formed, with a membership of about fifty. For some years past Tariki has been for lack of players unable to put a team in the field, but things look very much more promising for tlie forthcoming season, when we hope to hear of some of Tariki’s past prestige at football being regained. Much sympathy is felt locally for Mr. and Mrs. W. Loveridge and family in their loss of their eldest son and brother, w’.o was accidentally drowned at Auckland recently. The Tariki school lias again a boy champion athlete to compete at country sports meetings, Master Leslie Jakers worthily upholding the good record held in the past by winning the schools’ championship at the sports held in Inglewood on Monday the 12th, winning the cup medal, and for his school a new football. This is the third year that one of the boys has won a football for the school. Mr. Body, an old and respected former resident of Tariki, was a visitor to the place lately, staying a few days with old friends. Three rinks of Tariki bowlers are to play at West End on Thursday, the 15th. Mr. F. J. Stephens, a prominent member of the club since its inception, is under orders of transfer from his position as stationmaster at Tariki to Whangamomona, and expects to be leaving for his new destination early next week.