OTOROHANGA NEWS

Waipa Post, Volume 32, Issue 1787, 27 July 1926, Page 5

OTOROHANGA NEWS

ITEMS OF INTEREST. GUN CLUB'S SHOOT. (Own Correspondent.) At the week end the Otorohanga Gun Club held a series of (sweepstakes, the result's being as follow: — No. 1 sweepstake, 7 birds: M. Pratt and) T. McCready tied with the possible, and divided the stake. No. 2 sweepstake, 7 birds: M. Pratt and W. iSeymour tied with the posfeible and divided. ' -

No. 3 sweepstake, 7 birds: W. Seymour, won with the possible,: M. Pratt and J. McCready tieing for second place and dividing. u'.' ■ / Novice shoot: J.. Walker 1, J. Quin 2 M. Merrin 3. '

'The Otorohanga Gun Club intends to hold andther shoot in about! "(three Weeks' time, when the trophy presented by Mr M. Howley will be competed for. The occasion will also be made a .send-off to Mr Murray Pratt, who 'is leaving th'e district to take <u|p an appointment as ranger under the Tourist Department at Rotorua. A well-known commercial traveller who is in the habit of going to either Te Awamutu or Te Kuiti for the night rather, than stay in Otorohanga, where he has to return the next day, says he does so because there is no suii,able accommodation here. He 'lament!?, the absence of a public reading and. writing room, and wonders why the: Town Board has not .provided teuch. The puMic here are agitating for a women's* Jest room, and I think it is; time the local body moved in the matter of establishing one. Odious comparisons are being made as between Otorohanga and neighbouring towns of Te Awamutu and, Te Kuiti, at which places rest rooms have been established.

The tickets, for the Tuli Hockey Club'fe dance are selling Very well, and circumstances point, to a very good attendance in the Town Hall on Monday evening next. The contractors are well ahead with the new county offices, 'the concrete blocks for which are being moulded by hand on the site. It is expected that the work will be finished well within the contract 'time. •In reply to " Critic," who, in common with many others, say's he would? like to consign the Town Hall piano to the flames, I have made jnquiry and .find that the absolutely necessary re-string-ing and tuning have been delayed owing to the contractor for the work not having put in an appearance. Continuous rain and a warmer temperature have been the prevailing weather condition's here. for (the past 24 houlrs, and the pastures are already showing a tinge of bright green. The cows are coming in. and the new dairy season, Which commences in about a fortnight, will open with a good supply of milk and cream to the local factory. Mr Murray Pratt, our well-known shot, who is', going to compete at the forthcoming New Zealand, championship clay pigeon meeting, left for the south by .'Sunday night's express. The caterpillar dredge, or, as it is technically known ," Thewls creeiper," which arrived/ in sections about a fortnight ago, has now been assembled, and has been taken to Messrs Belcher and Company's workshop to. receive the necessary finishing touches before it is worked on the river bed about a couple of miles from town. The machine is a mds-t interesting piece of mechanism, and is capable of dredging up to 250 cubic yards a day. The shovel is so designed that it can both dig and grip, so that, should, stay, a' log of timber, be encountered it could be seized) and hauled out.