OTOROHANGA NEWS

Waipa Post, Volume 45, Issue 3267, 13 December 1932, Page 8

OTOROHANGA NEWS

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

TOPICS OF THE HOUR.

(Our Resident Representative.)

The total number of registered unemployed men ac present working on the extermination of ragwort in the Otorohanga County is Of this number eighty have been sent from Auckland. The men were distributed among the farmers, and so far only two have bjeen found so unsatisfactory that they had to be sent away. Although these men are all Class 2A, many oi them are willing and anxious to be lfiept at road work after the ragwort season has closed. Whilst harvesting operations were proceeding on the iarm of Mr S. J. Samson at Kio Kio during the week, a stacker which was being erected, slipped and the boom came down heavily, striking Mr Sanson a severe biow fracturing his thigh and inflicting other injuries. Mr Samson was removed to the Waikato Hospital. Mr G. S. Fry, of the staff of the Bank 01 Wew Zealand, is at present an inmate of a private hospital, at Hamilton, where he has undergone a minor operation, and expects to resume duties during this week. Friends will regret to learn that Mrs Le Prou, of Otorohanga, is at present in th}e Waikato Hospital, awaiting an operation for a longstanding internal trouble. Three cricket matches were decided here on Saturday. Playing Kio Kio, Otorohanga made 116 for 7 wickets (declared). Chapman 36; Craig (not cut), 20; Corbett, 15; Donnison, 15 and Frazer 11, were the best scorers. Bolt took three wickets for 40 runs. Kio Kio replied with 62. (Lissington, 20; : Boggusfe, 12; L. Sdown, 11), whilst Fraser took 4 wickets for 15 and V. FairbrotHer 6 for 25. In School v. Natives the former made 112 (B. Hotson,, 59). Natives made 63. School won on the first innings. Retailers made 85 against Honikiwi. (Jankers 22; K. Cameron, 17). Honikiwi put up 45 and 17. Retailers secured a 3 point victory. Mrs Dr Gilberd, Otorohanga, who has been an inmate of the Waikato Hospital for some time past, is now convalescent and expects to return home this week. The relief workers' camp, some miles past the Waitomo Caves, is to be shifted to the junction of the Hauturu and Caves-Lemon Point Road, i whiere road works will be resumed after the holidays. About four miles of road improvements have been completed from the present camp.

The Waikato Banner contest between Te Kuiti and Otorohanga tennis players, to have been played here on Saturday, had to be postponed owing to heavy rains. The contest will be played next Saturday. Mr Walter Townsend, a resident of Otorohanga for some years past, died suddenly at his home, here, on Friday afternoon. He had been about town, apparently in his usual good health, during Friday forenoon, and while playing a game of billiards with a friend complained of pains in his chest. The friend accompanied him towards his home, about a mile away, but when they had walked a few hundred yards, Mr Townsend collapsed and was taken home in a taxi, expiring shortly afterwards. Deceased had farmed near Otorohanga for some years and had always been interested in sport among horses, and he owned All Soult. The 'late Mr Townsend owned considerable property, including a residential one in Te Awamutu. His first wife predeceased him some flew years ago, and he later married the witfow of the late Mr William Thompson. A grown-up son lives in Wellington, and he has several other relatives in this district, his widow also survives him.