WAITARA GENERAL NEWS

Taranaki Daily News, 29 August 1933, Page 5

WAITARA GENERAL NEWS

UNEMPLOYED ALLOCATION., Twenty-eight men are receiving relief work at Waitara this week, £27 Is being the allocation received from the Unemployment Board. The total number of men registered remains at about 35. It has been decided to hold the basketball tournament which was postponed last week on Saturday, September 9. The Wellington representative touring team, which is visiting Taranaki this week, will play a Waitara team on the Camp Reserve on Friday. Playing for the Parris Taylor Shield at the week-end the Turangi team defeated Waitara, the holder, by 11 to nil, the score being three tries, one. converted. Under instructions of the Registrar of the Supreme Court, under the provisions of the Rating Act, two sections were sold by public auction on Saturday afternoon owing to the rates not being paid and legal inquiries being fruitless. One section, on the corner of Parris and Domett Streets, realised £3O, the purchaser being Mr. W. B. Hoskins, and the other section in Strange Street was purchased by Mr. T. Perger at £25. The area of each section was a quarter of an acre. The Kapui after an absence from Waitara for some weeks arrived on Monday afternoon’s tide with a cargo of coal. The vessel appears none the worse for her recent mishap at Mokau, where she was stranded for some time. Mr. J. C. Smith arrived from Wellington on Saturday, and yesterday took over the management of the legal offices of Messrs. Monaghan and Middleton at Waitara.