PONGAROA.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 601, 1 September 1909, Page 10

PONGAROA.

The district lias hardly felt tho depression this; winter; I ,and work has been plentiful .fortho, meniwlio liinlie ' the.district their lieadquart«rs':'.v IVncing aud scrub-cutting • have been ; rapidly going on ■ all ' the /old Marainaugi'.Statiqii. Tho new,'settlers are making ;t;lio-coast road look far less.'desolate,-' and : generally ono -feels , that land is far better carfid for; if tho holdings are not too lairge/ ,Thij: roads aro in very good. condi-; tioii for-winter tirno. -Two. road-graders are ;«t, work; .'levelling; and cleaning. They-are doing gcjod work, but it is good for'tiio engineer's'- peace of niind that lie -doesn't hear all '.that is said about his "mudv '{■■■':-C ®»o Football 'Clubithe winners'; of the ;jfuketoi . TJiiion's . corajKtition'H&lci' their annual danco on August 27. During the evqhisigs ■ Sir, J. Murray, presented j.tliq. banner.Nwon. :

. -.We• aro,;jibw : beginning to" think about cricket,'.'.Hndfo.ur.teams are likely to conic out—^eber.;'-; Waioije, ■ Altitio,, ahd--BoiigaroaJ. The .'WaiiJ.ne; club I'field;i':'.dance- :on,- v .'lugust'' '27, to iraise : :-fiirids ;.;.t-6. le.wl'.- their, grbuhd-. ■ and the 'Porigafoa ''Club ", hold their: annual meeting on August 2S:. The following -officers .were elected:—Captain; M^r..J. Murray; vice-captain, Rev. G. Stephenson; secretaryand treasurer, Martin; committee, Messrs.-Hayns, and Catta'riach.; delegates' to : the Akiti.O: Union,. Messrs, Hayns,..nnd Kent.The ipllowirir?..'.were-.'elected a .committee'-'of management ;for, the 'ensuing year::—Messrs; E. Lnlv, Br/J. Judcl, P. Oag, M. arid J.' Uyhe, and J,. Cameron. ~ «\- : - ■-,