OTOROHANGA NEWS

Waipa Post, Volume 43, Issue 3373, 10 November 1931, Page 5

OTOROHANGA NEWS

DISTRICT HAPPENINGS. TOPICS OF THE HOUR. (Our Resident Representative.) The Town v. Country cricket match on Saturday produced good cricket by the country team, which enabled them to win by ten runs. The live town and district teams were represented at the general meeting of the association on Monday evening when the draw for the season's play took place. The Maori team engaged Honikiwi (at Honikiwi) during the week-end and won by a narrow margin. A prominent chief of the Maniapotos, Poutu Patupatu, died here on Sunday, alter a long illness, aged 50 years. Deceased was well known throughout the King Country and highly honoured. Poutu owned considerable property in the main street of Otorohanga where a business block carries his name. He had extensive landed interests, and farmed on a large scale, at Pio Pio and elsewhere. The dead chief was an elder brother of Mokena Patupatu, now head of the Maniapoto tribe, at Otorohanga, and a close relation, by descent, to the late great chief, Te Wahanui. The remains were removed to Pio Pio yesterday, where a tangi is being held. While a young settler of Kio Kio, Mr Thomas Martin, was en route to Raglan on Sunday last, his cycle struck a rut on the Kawhia Road, near the bridge over the Waipa, and Martin was thrown violently and rendered unconscious. He was picked up by settlers and removed to his home, where he is now progressing satisfactorily. There seems to be a decidedly better prospect for skin and fur values being firmer than for many months past,’indicating that the slump in these commodities is over.