EAST COAST NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1847, 30 August 1906, Page 3

EAST COAST NEWS.

TOKOMAIiU BAY,

(From Our Own Coirespondent.) Oa Snutday evening lust a must enjoyub!o dance wae hold ut tho now publio school, which is approaching completion. Tho object was to provido funds for tho purohaso of, a school boll. Tboio was a good attendance, moat of tho Europoun families boiog represented. Disappointment waa folt huro among fooibull rnthusiasta at tbo failuro of iho Waiapu Utiiou to send a roprosoniulivo team to town. Tho oflico.-a of tho union did their utmost to got a loam together, hut could not got a nutlioiont number of plajors to make tho trip. Tho union has onough money in hand, but mon uro wauling. Unless more team* j >iu in u< xt season it soema probablo that the Waiapu Union will broomo a thing of tho past. Outside Tdcmiaru little interest baa b:oo displayed in tho game thin season. Cricketers are commencing to talk of

tho summer g »mo. Lai season cricket was dead along the Ocutt. In Tokomuru, at any rate, the Muoris do not take tho Hituio in'orost in orickot as in too ball, This is a pity, ns there aro mauy atblnie

utilivoa ho to who oui'd, if thoy would, play tho game Wi.il Tennis h«a not yet begun, tho avphalt oouit having boon vaount for soldo inonths now,

Thoro w»9 a difference of opinion among

tho publio as to tho aiio of out now post oflico, soiuo faying that it should have a frontage to Witimann stioot, end others being tu favoe oi' tbo prosont frontage. A'tor a delay of over a week, tbo Wattm nt street site was decided on b.y tho Postal Department, and tho building has boon oommoncod.

fcjinco tbo coach resumed the mail ser« vioo wo have reeoived cur mails regularly and in good time. Driyor MoKinDy is to bo oomtnendod on bis consistency, us ruin or ehino bo manages to get hero always ut about the sums timo, dospito tho state of tho roads. The nutivo schoolmaster bus received from the Native Department a supply of vegetable seeds to bo distributed free to tbo Maoris of this district. The seeds supplied aro swede turu'p, carrot, peas, beaus, onion, parsnip, pumpkin, kohl iabi, white turnip, and oabbage. Lsiflota in Maori have aiso been sent for distribution, explaining exaotly bow to grow these vegetables. No eeod potatoes are being sent to this distric*, it being considered by the Department that tho need is greater in other districts.