WAITARA NEWS
GENERAL AND PERSONAL ITEMS. (From Our -Own Correspondent.) » The Waitara retailers met yesterday and decided on the following closing days at Christmas and New Year: Three ■ days at Christmas, • two' : at the New . Year. ' ■■■'. r A fire in marram grass on the west side of the Waitara. River was noticed, in time before, damage or* total loss was I caused to th'e concrete mixing shed belonging to the Waitara "Harbour. Board ■ or to the ladies’ bathing shed. The harbourmaster put a man oh to fight the . flames and after a short time the danger E was averted.- . - , „ . • I The death occurred suddenly at Palmerston North on Thursday of Mr. 1 L. L.- P. Brabant, eldest son of ; i Mr. anti Mrs. F. J. Brabant, t the cause .of death being heart failure. - Mr. Brabant commenced his career at t the Waitara post office and was a mem-.. ; i ber* of the New Plymouth -post office , staff for some years before'being transferred to Palmerston North. ■ ■ } A Scotch fair held by Knox Church,: 1 Waitara, on Thursday afternoon re» . ceivcd good patronage in aid of the funds - of the church. The receipts were about £l2. 1 ■ j -
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Taranaki Daily News, 6 December 1930, Page 3
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