RANGITIKEI-OROUA NOTES.

Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 20347, 6 May 1915, Page 7

RANGITIKEI-OROUA NOTES.

FEfLDING FREEZING WORKS

INITIAL WORK BEING PUSHED ON.

FINGER POSTS

MARTON JOCKEY CLUB'S GENER-

OUS GIVING

TWO MORE FEILDING MEN WOUNDED IN ACTION.

FAREWELL [NG A POPULAR BANK

MANAGER

MISHAP DURING SHUNTING AT

PALMERSTON

(From our Travelling Reporter.) MARTON, May 5. Messrs Burrell and Conway, two of the directors of the Feildirig freezing works scheme, have returned from a visit to Wellington, and found that the plans were well forward. The Railway Department has completed its survey, and estimate of the cost of the siding, and the work will be put in hand right away.

Messrs Jorgensen and Wesche's tender for the erection of a cheese factorj' at Oroua Downs for the Glen Oroua Dairy Company has been acepted, the price being £1825. The Kairanga County Council has decided to erect finger pasts on the main and cross-roads of the county up to the value of £20.

Mr Harry McManaway has purchased the freehold of the llangitikei Hotel at Bulls, and he assumes control on the 31st inst.

At a meeting of the Marton Jockey Club committee last evening the sum of £10 was voted to the district nurse and £5 to the Marton patriotic workers.

Private advices received at Feilding state that W. Mansfield and W. Stevens were among the wounded at the Dardanelles.

The drinking fountain monument which was erected in the centre of the Feilding Borough Square to the soldiei'3 who fell in the South African war, is being removed to the nearest corner of the plot next to Mr J. Cobbe's drapery stores. It is to be hoped that when the work is completed the water will flow through the pipes, as. originally intended.

A pleasing" ceremony took place at Mangaweka, when Mr R. Smart, local manager of the branch of- the Bank of New Zealand, was presented by the citizens with an illuminated address accompanied by a purse of sovereigns. Mr Smart has been stationed for two years in Mangaweka, and has now been transferred to Wellington.

General regret was expressed in the Ohingaiti district at the death of Mrs. Littlewood, wife of the license eof the Ohingaiti Hotel. The deceased was a universal favourite, and she will be greatly missed by her numerous friends.

A mishap occurred at Palmerston station yards last evening, several waggons, during shunting operations, crashing into one standing close to the concrete block closing the shunting line fit the Commercial Hotel crossing. The impact caused the waggon to capsize, besides tearing up the concrete stop from its foundations.