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Hokitika Guardian, 7 May 1923, Page 2

From the particulars published over the week end in regard to the personnel of the lecturers to attend tile AA'estland AA’inter School, to bo held hero next month, settlers and others who are making arrangements to be present at the event, should be well repaid for their time and attention devoted to the round of lectures. The agricultural lecturers are all men well versed in their special science, while the lecturers on stock, etc, arc well known and should impart very valuable instruction. The lectures on pig husbandry in particular should he of special value, seeing that with the facilities which will now he afforded for an assured market for pigs grown on the Coast, the rearing of pigs should become a prominent feature in dairy farming. The general public w.ll he specially interested in the revisits of Professor Shelley and CoiulelitTe, who will deal with important matters relating to the public weal. The instruction to bo imparted, and the manner in which the information is conveyed, is certainly an acceptable form, and the general interest which will ha aroused should he such as to make this year’s School an outstanding success. For the possibilities of the occasion the community is specially indebted once again to tlie very kind offices of our Canterbury friends.

Tin-: interesting notes published oil Saturday from the pen of a valued correspondent in regard to the first Exhibition held in Hokitika fifty years ago, are of value to-day as disclosing the spirit and enterprise of the pioneers at a time when communication was so restricted and population naturally limited. An account of the first Exhibition, we are persuaded, would ho of such general interest, that we propose to place the newspaper files ol those days at the disposal of the correspondent, amt endeavour to secure the republication of notes on the event which are sure to he of wide public interest. Those residents here to-day who can recall the event ol live decades ago, remember it as a stilling occasion. A very line display was made, and the Exhibition ran so successfully that the period was extended. Several gentlemen put- a great deal of personal work into the project, and with the very hearty co-operation of the public, a marked success was achieved. AVhat was accomplished in those far off days, should ho achieved nowadays. At all events tlie Exhibition Council is sotting about its task in a praiseworthy manner, and encouraged as they are by tbe public interest in the greatest event in the history of AA'estland, should in the end attain a. degree, of success, no lc-s pleasing than that of .30 years ago.

The reconstituted Municipal Council got into its stride on Friday night, and there was an indication that active work is to he done. It is rather to ho regretted that the provision of flic loan money is being so long delayed. seeing that it is several weeks now since the poll was carried. Evidently the official wheels move slowly, if surely. Tho Council authorised a report in regard to the municipal buildings, and a special meeting is to be called ns soon as it is known the loan money will ho available. It was indicated, as was suggested hv Mr Mackay, that expert direction he arranged lor. This is a wise, step to take. Iho committees for the year were set up, and the remarks of the speakers suggested there would he a busy time ahead. The Mayor opened with an optimistic note as to tho work ahead cl the Council, so that it would, seem the members aro on business bent, and that the term of the Council will he a brisk one. Mr Maekay indicated to tho newly elected Chairman of Works that- if material reform were not brought about in three months’ time, condign punishment would await Mr Heinz 1 The Council did the light thing in affording every facility to the Exhibition Committee to go right ahead with the proposed building scheme as indicated by the attractive plan of the lay-out produced at tho meeting.