OTOROHANGA NEWS

Waipa Post, Volume 40, Issue 3106, 30 January 1930, Page 5

OTOROHANGA NEWS

DISTRICT HAPPENINGS. ITEMS OF INTEREST. , (Our Resident Representative.) The rainfall at Otorohanga during November, December and January, to date, was 21.43 in., which is the heaviest recorded here during the past eight years. In 1922-23, during the same period, 19.65 in. fell. At the moment of writing the conditions are very unsettled with indications of further downpours.

At a special meeting of the Otorohanga County Council a by-law was. passed, making provision that all persons engaged in extraordinary traffic must deposit with the council the cost of anticipated damage to roads. The resolution will be submitted for confirmation at the next meeting of the council on 25th February. At the recent meeting of the Honikiwi Road Ratepayers' Association, general dissatisfaction was expressed with the present condition of the Tapuae Road, and the county engineer (Mr Gerald Jackson) is to be asked to make an early inspection of this and the Oamaru Road. Settlers complained of the difficulty in carting their products out, and manures, wire and grass seed in under the existing conditions. The chairman, Mr W. R. Harty, expressed lack of confidence in the council's methods of maintaining roads. Members protested against the council's decision to make the Otorohanga-Honikiwi Road (a main highway) a county road, as this would result in further rating the settlers of the hinterland for the benefit of transport companies and tourists. A resolution was passed that members of the association shall, whenever possible, give preference to traders who patronise the railways, and to boycott those who support road transport. It was decided to push on the matter of the metalling of the Tapuae Road, and to endeavour to arrange with the county council regarding cutting back the acute corners on the Honikiwi Road. Some of this latter work has been completed, but owing to the engineer's disapproval, full settlement has not yet been reached. The local tennis tournament was continued yesterday when there was a very large attendance. Some fine individual play was enjoyed by the spectators. The dance, in Turner's Hall, in the evening drew a capacity house, and excellent dance niusic was provided by-the management. During an interval the presentation of trophies was made. A wedding of considerable local interest was celebrated in the Takaka Presbyterian Church (Nelson), when Maurice Frederic Kedgley, eldest son of the Rev. and Mrs E. H. Kedgley, of Otorohanga, and Leila Margaret Adams, eldest daughter of Mr and Mrs J. Adams, of Takaka, were united in matrimony. The service was - conducted by the Rev. Mr Hall. The bride was given away by her father, Mr Norman Hitchcock was best man, and Mr Fred Hambrook was groomsman. The bridesmaids were Miss Eleanor Adams, sister of the bride and Miss Dorothy Kedgley, sister of the bridesgroom. The bride wore a frock of ivory crepe de chine and silver lace, fashioned on straight lines. Her hand-embroidered veil was held in place with a wreath of orange blossoms and she carried a sheaf of lilies. The bridesmaids carried bouquets of pink roses, carnations and sweet peas. Miss Kedgley wore a frock of pale green crepe- i de-chine with a two-tiered skirt, falling in graceful lines to the sides, and completed with a waist posy. Her crinoline straw hat was to tone. Miss Adams wore a frock of apricot crepe-de-chine, trimmed with lace and finisher with a shoulder posy and a crinoline hat to tone.

A dgtrict farmer, Mr J. W. W. Seymore, has just stacked an area of oaten sheaf, which he claims to be one of the heaviest yields in the Otorohanga district. The estimated weight of stacked material is something over four tons to the acre, and was saved in perfect condition.