Kiwitea Notes

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 73, 17 December 1891, Page 3

Kiwitea Notes

) [FROM OUB OWN CORRESPONDENT. | * Meetings of householders were held in the Cheltenham and Kiwitea school houses' -oh Monday December 14th at 8 p. in;, to,, elect ■ new school committee's for ther respective districts. The fol- ) lowing "were elected : — Cheltenham— r Messrs Law, (chairman) Mills, Phillips, > Duckworth,, H. Bnrrell, Shirley and Stewart. Kiwitea— Messrs Tappin, (cbairl man) Gibson, Mitchell, J. Barrow, T. R. » Taylor, A. Perry, and Lockyer. Flock shearing in the Kiwitea is 3 rapidly approaching completion, though , it Ims been somewhat delayed by the j prevalence of la grippe among both shearers -and owners. Flock owners com- , plain a "good deal of the number of , matted fleeces that are found this year, but apart from this, the clip will be a magnificent one, both for weight and , quality.' The only drawback to the far^ L mers' perfect satisfaction now is the doubt as to the price he will get for hia wool in England. . . j We have good authority for the saying' " the poor we have always with us," and it looks as if our friend the j influenzto, la-grippe,: or whatever name], we may choose to call him, has also taken up his abode here. We all thought hh had? departed for ''fresh fields- and pastures new, " but we reckoned withoutfour • host, as -we. understand that , this week ' several new victims have been claimed. Among others Mr Banks; of Woodstock, and several 1 'members of his family, and Mr Meehanj the genial- landlord of the Cheltenham 'Hostelry, . We trust that the grippe fiend will ( soon relax his hold,