NEWS FROM OTOROHANGA

Waipa Post, Volume 32, Issue 1924, 21 October 1926, Page 5

NEWS FROM OTOROHANGA

SOUTHERN DISTRICT AFFAIRS. lITEMS OF INTEREST. . Correspondent.) The freeholdlng '.of Otorohanga township is, it is said, .likely to be an accomplished fact by thje middle of next month.-This'.hews.'h'as been received by the Secretary of the Oltorohanga Chamber of Commerce from thte Nativfei Affairs iDepartment. il understand Ithat our, stock sale day will be altered for ~the coming year from Friday, ip; Wednesday; They will b% on alternate .Wednesdays, commencing on January 12th.

Thje Hon. IRi A.. Minister of Education, is expected! .Were to-morrow (Fridlay) and will - visilt the local schools. He will, go on to'Te Kuiti from here and Whence to New Plymouth. ■„■-;(■■- ;p l Ji.jWQW - Mr F. 'PhiilipSjj'iaJt' of the Power IBoa'rd, 'casually mentioned football matjte'rls and s aid that though he had been 'in favour of the club being formed he hopea th'alt next' yjear there would not 'b*et a powerißoard team. The reason for ithis 1 was that it had been generally asserted that eniployto'en't of men on the staff depended upon their reputation as football .playfers. . 'The manufacture of the 597 concrete 'polea-. Te Kuitii was ojult without a break or accident occurring. This is a in the carrying out of the work. There was not a very large entry ■alt the bull.i'salidiyes.tferdlay. and the class of animal-was very ; hiixed. Thfelre were not many buyers-and the prices realised were-but medium'though the salje was looked upon as fairly successful. • •"• ,'.;'>* ■■■'-■■ • : i' , f"'f'

Alftter a dance, the o|ther night a motorist turned too sharp to the right from the Town HaW ..and drove his car along the •pavenienlt and cairHed a verandah posit! alway. The night being Very dark and the Town Hall lights haVing been put out Jthe...driver was not able to see tbe'demarcation between pavement arid' roadway. lOn Tuesday two bulls that werje bte"ing driven to the saleyard's engaged in combat, and a driver on his.pony rushed in to separate them. "The result was ltha|t the hors% was fatally gbfrie'd and died aftelr he had been put into tlhe ipaddock' next the"~Tbwh Hall.

A rather heavy slip has occurred on the urimeltaliled iportion of thfe road msar Ciinickshank's, ' beyond Otewa, and the County Cou'ncfl staff have been busily engagedl in removing same. Before th|e construotiion gang leaves here Ithe Town Btoard will havte an extra light put .up .in. Tutunui Street. It is to be hoped thajt this light will be provided at (the, aplpr;pach to the Waipa btridge, Turner's. The price givten'by the Waito'mo .Power 'Board. for Ithe section (Gorton's) in the northern end of Maniapoto Street, wtarks out at over £7 per foot frontage.'