Frasertown Notes.

Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 122, 3 June 1901, Page 1

Frasertown Notes.

(TI3IES CORRESPONDENT.)

The usual monthly meeting of the Frasertown School Committee was held in the schoolroom on Saturday evening. Present: Messrs Hallett (Chairman), T. J. Tunks, S. J. Bennett, Forsyth, G. Rigley, A. G. Smith, and G. Beckett. The minutes having been read and confirmed, tenders for the post of caretaker for twelve months were considered, arid that of Mrs Evans for £ll, being the lowest, was accepted. The teacher’s report was read and adopted. The Visiting Committee recommended certain small repairs, which were ordered to be effected. On the motion of Mr Hallett, seconded by Mr Tunks, it was decided to apply to the Board for a shelter shed, also new conveniences for the girls, and a pipe drain from the lavatory to the river. Some small accounts were passed for payment. Mr Hallett proposed,- and Mr Bennett seconded, that the Education Board be asked to dispense with-the services of the present teacher, and- appoint a master to the Frasertown school. Mr Forsyth proposed, as an amendment, “ That the application for a master be deferred until the end of the present year.” Seconded by Mr A. G. Smith. On the amendment being put, only the proposer and seconder voted for it. On tho motion being put, five voted for it. The amendment was, therefore, lost, and the motion carried. Messrs Hallett and Bennett were appointed a visiting committee. The meeting then adjourned. The Maori palate is not averse to pheasant (in the season), but pheasants, as a rule, take some shooting. While on the other hand, fowling pieces and “ sporting requisites for gents ” are not always within the grasp of the pheasant loving aboriginal (Uriwera). Still, there are ways of procuring pheasants without tho aid.of a fowling piece. One of the methods is so ingenious as to be worthy of being placed on record. The Uriwera desirous of dining off pheasant procures a few grains of maize, to each of which he fastens one end of a horse hair about quarter of a yard long. The grains of maize thus treated he scatters about in a likely place and bides his tijne. The unlucky pheasants of course swallow the corn greedily, but find that they cannot get rid of the hair, which is just long enough to protrude from their beaks, and in their frantic efforts to free their throats from tho irritating hair, become so dazed that the wily savage pounces upon and secures them without difficulty.