COUNTRY NEWS.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LX, Issue 17060, 13 August 1917, Page 6

COUNTRY NEWS.

IT^MS OF PERSONAL INTEREST.

EARLY RISING IN WAIMARINO

DISTRICT

EXCITBMENET AT FEILDING

RAILWAY STATION.

-"-' (From Our Travelling Reporter.) :: Private A. R. Dewa.r, son of Mr De-•%-ar, Feilding, has been reported Grounded. .

.-•wOs the motion of Mr E. Short, the f eilding Show Committee extended :ts 'isjjrmpatnj to the relatives of the late •Mr Donald Fraser. A vote of sympathy *ribh' the relatives of the late Mr Robert IPeMTett was also carried on the motion ef Mr H. Morrison.

has lost by death another ef its ©W and most respected residents, in th« person of Mr Anders Neilsen. ■He'was a native of Denmark. - v ;..i ; Mr W. Canning, formerly Postmaster •a-fc"Ohakune, has been transferred from Fairlie to Waverley. Mr and Mrs CaniHing were accorded an enthusiastic •ftittl-largely-attended farewell and presentation by the Fairlie and Mackenzie County people. '" The altered railway time-table of the' "Main Trunk is causing considerable inconvenience pnd exceptionally early rising in th« Waimaiino district. Passengers for Wanganui or Wellington distnets ate novr obliged to leave by a 'coach which leaves Raetihi at 2'Ab a.M. Needless to state; the change i.i lid* appreciated. . At the annual meeting of the Raetihi Presfoyterian Church, the sessio-i report for the Raetihi-Ohakune charge iiras read, and showed splendid progress in all departments of the! Church and Sunday school work. Messrs ChiUburg, Millar and Stewart were added to the Fridny afternoon there was considerable excitement at Feilding station Thirds, owing; to the facetiousness of a oi\)l. The beast resisted getting into th* -N.Z. Railways cattle truck, and escaping from the yards it bolted down &}&, line, till it met the cattle-stop at South Street, where it fell across th 9 /alls. Just at the inopportune time ,th&» Auckland express approached, and frantic signals by the drovers failed to > ( tot> the trnin. The result was that a xdlision oeciired, the animal being thrown about- 20 feet through a ws ien&e into a -ditch. The injuries received were so severe that the police destroyed th* beast. ~'. A, woman did some excellent work Trith the plough near Pahiatua las& reek, i . -*As shotrina. the number of women who were taking; up dairy work in Taranak>\ fchfr chairman of 1?lie first WeUington >Military Service Board stated that 2200 linett and l£>oo women were engaged m .ihr> industry.

-* Ptaasanfc* pens are to be established '*it Mftsterton by the Wellington Ac■climatisation Society. Arrangement?! «r<» being made to accommodate aboatt %6 atoek.birds and about 50 young bird-s.