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Huntly Press and District Gazette, Volume 3, Issue 6, 7 August 1914, Page 2

A correspondent sends the folTwn lowing tit bits illustrate live of the ideas of R children, the items being brought to recollection by the little chap’s comparison of hail to sago as, chronicled in last week’s issue. A little girl who had been on a visit to Rotorua, while struck with the weird wonders of Ohinemutu and Whakarewarewa, was able to give a graphic description of all she saw ; but, when asked what she liked best, she replied that she was never tired of watching the sardines swimming about, and coming to the edgs of the pond in search of the crumbs of bread and biscuit provided by visitors. The sardines, of course, were the little gold fish, kept in one of the ponds in the sanitorium grounds. Visiting a lady who iiad just presented her husband with a bouncing baby girl, the little visitor, looking round, saw the infant lying in a dress hamper. After duly admiring the little one, she in all innocence enquired—“ And is that the basket the baby came in?” The tone was so matter-of-fact, that any explanation of physiological problems became futile. The news received to the effect that the Minister RAILWAY c r , , w , Extension. Authorisation Bill an extension of the Huntly-Aw iroa railway to the Burnt Bridge, or Basley’s corner, as it is also named, has naturally caused much rejoicing in Huntly. The decision will conclude the battle of the routes lately waged with considerable vigour, and will make Huntly the junction of a line which will not only be payable from tee moment of its opening, but will afford easier marketing facilities for the large number of settlers in such fertile and productive districts as Waingaro, Waimai, and Te Akau, among others. The extension, though only about three miles in length, will run westward from the junction of the main line with the branch from the Pukemiro Colliery, and is important, not so much on account of its length, hut on the impetus it will give to local development. With this in view, it is to | he hoped that the motion of sale I yards in this neighbourhood will I he vigorously prosecuted, and I that every means will he adopted I in the effort to attract trade to I the mining town. With railway I extension a road improvement I scheme should naturally follow, I but this will not eventuate until, I as the settlers themselves see, a I portion cut off from the Raglan I County is created into a bluntly I West Road district The great I majority of the settlers are most I favourable to the idea, so that I immediate steps in the direction I indicated may bo anticipated. I In response to a request as to I the steps necessary to bring I this about particulars will short- I ly he published in this column. I The member for the district has 1 worked well for his constituents, I and the promised railway exten- I sion is another indie:.tion of his I desire to promote the interests of I the residents of Raglan. No I doubt, his efforts will he duly I and gratefully acknowledged at/l the ballot box when the general I election takes place. * I