RAHOTU.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 144669, 1 May 1915, Page 4

RAHOTU.

FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT. April 129. The footballers have made a start to practice, and should they roll up for a few Saturdays as they did on the 24th there should bo some fair players, and a good fifteen could be picked; though they have lost the services of Bill Surgenor, who has gone to the front, and Arthur Raynor, who has left the district. Wo often hear of the boys going out of the district and bringing homo a bride, but a case happened hero lately of a young lady going away and bringing home a bridegroom. We shall soon have the first of May, not that it matters to some so-called sports, as they have opened the shooting season a week ago." It must bo very disheartening to the Acclimatisation Society, who try to import game to make sport for a few poachers to get the benefit before tho season opens. I have a suggestion to make to the society. We have a veal live policeman here, and why not give him a license as well as other country police officers, and if he is inclined that way he may lie able to bag a poacher, or two. Writing of pheasant'shooting puts the writer in mind of a trip to Whanga, something like 12 years ago, with a well-known shot of the police force: The trip was a pleasant one, hut as to birds, judge for yourself—when my friend boarded ■the train on ‘tho home journey he had three old hens'in his bag, belonging to a well-known hotel proprietor of Stratford. •

Mister Claude Green, who had tho misfortune to get scalded some time ago, is still far from well, and is in the New Plymouth Hospital. A few cases of blackleg have broken out in tho district, being in every case due to the thoughtlessness of the owners in not taking tho calves to get inoculated.- I must give the inspector every credit. He is anxious to stamp blackleg out; if you write saying you cannot come with your calves the inspector will come to you. But there, is a limit to every man’s endurance, and some of the settlors will find it ont when it is too late, and instead of the inspector going to dir. Farmer, Mr. Farmer will have a visit to the S.M. at the invitation of the inspector, and quite right., Mr. Newton King had one of the largest yardings at his autumn fair, and cattle that were in anything like condition sold well, especially good weancr steers.

iV'ot a great deal of interest was taken in the election of the school committee, when only ten householders put in an appearance. Six were nominated, and the usual election followed, tho result being: A. F. Chapman 10, F. Ward 10, A. D. Fielder 8, 11. Anglosea 7. H. Aunis 7, J. Williamson 5. A. F. Chapman was elected chairman and F. Ward secretary. The chairman, in his report of the year’s working, said the committee and teacher are working hand in hand, ami they have a credit balance of £3 Rs lid.

Tbe election of a member for the Hoad Hoard will bo our next excitement, on Tuesday, May 4, when the ratepayers will have to decide between Messrs" Green (tho sitting member), A. Chapman, and S. Willowbough. Mr. Green has only served a short period of something like eight months, and has proved himself a useful member. Mr. Chapman is an ex-member of the board, and is spoken of as a very fair and unbiased man. Mr. Willowbough has not served on a local body in the district. so nothing can be said of him in a public capacity.