MATAINUI NOTES

Hokitika Guardian, 20 September 1927, Page 1

MATAINUI NOTES

(From A Correspondent.) The lambing season is now well on and many are the new faces to be seen, as the arrivals 6camper here and tlier enjoying the first gambol of a short lived pleasure alas, to many. Listening in is now very popular since the installatiog of !two more wiroless sets, many enjoyable evenings being spent in this manner. The Spinsters and Bachelors held a jnost successful ©all last Thursday week at which over one hundred Persians thoroughly enjoyed themselves, apij voted it the most popular function JielpJ here for many years. Three car loads came from Waiho Gorge and helpe<|. considerably to swell the numbers. Mr J. L. Tennent, for the Committee, jn a neat speech, extended a welcome to the benedicts and others for their attendance, find wished them a most enjoyable evening. Thanks are due' to Miss Evan’s Orchestra for the

very fine music rendered, also to Mcsdlimes Debit and Corcoran for the kind assistance in decorating‘the Hall. Mr T. AY. Butler lias returned from 80-. s after trucking a fine specimen of South Westland fat cattle to Reef ton. The debating society i-, still very much alive and is a great asset to the district. Impromptu evenings and debates arc very popular among the younger residents, and judging by the speeches and debating ability of the forementioned, the organisers are being well rewarded for their time spent in assisting same.