WAITARA.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 16607, 3 December 1919, Page 6

WAITARA.

Fll O'M OCR OWN COIUII2SPOKI>Ii.Nf Dec. -3. Tho Seaside Improvement Society held its annual meeting last week, Mr. C. P. Drydale in the chair The bal-ance-sheet showed a credit of £2-1. In tho course of a report the committee congratulated Mi, J. Laiug and the life-saving team in having retained the Tabor Shield. _lt was suggested that a' memorial should he erected to the late Mr. C. F. Turner who lost his life in Franco. lie was ono of the pioneers of the society and one of tho hardest workers that the society had had. The mooting resolved tlmt the matter of the memorial, should be left in tho hands of the committee to deal with. Tho opening day of the season will ho next month at a date to bo fixed. A considerable' number of “honera” are being dealt with at the wo: ka. Farmers. are complaining tnaf til* though thorn are nice showers of rain they are always followed by strong dvving winds. The Kia Ora was expected in tho roadstead this morning, hut X understand that sho was unable to loavo tho Breakwater owing to wind pressure. and -tho meat- she was to load is being railed to the Breakwater. [Authentic grounds for this rumour are lacking. The Kin Ora was scheduled to leave the' New Plymouth wharf at 6 o’clock this morning t-o proceed to the ATattara roadstead. At. five o’clock last night the agent for the Shaw-Savill Line at New Plymouth rang up Borthwiok and Sons Btd., AVaitara, to inform them that everything was ready at this end, and tho vessel would proceed according to schedule. He was then informed that the tug had been sent out of the AVaitara River, and it had been found that the bar had silted up and was unfit for lightering purposes. It was therefore arranged that the Kia Ora should remain at New Plymouth .and that the meat from ATaitara should be railed in. —Kd, T.ii.l