PURIRI NOTES.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXII, Issue 4305, 17 August 1921, Page 2

PURIRI NOTES.

DAIRY SUPPLIERS’ MEETING.

(“Gazette” Correspondent.)

A meeting of the suppliers of the Dairy Company was. held to, elect a suppliers’ committee. Mr E. J. Smitn was elected to the chair. Mr G. Buchanan was present by request, and addressed the meeting at considerable length, mainly >n reply to the letters published in the Thames “Star’’ from. Mr Leonard. After he had finished speaking he was closely cross-exam-ined by nearly all present on differ-

ent points about which fhey were not clear. All these questions he answered quite to the satisfaction of those present, _A unanimous vote of thanks ■was passed to Mr Buchanan for coming to the meeting and the able and satisfactory way he had handled a highly.technical matter. It is a pity, that Jl few other suppliers did not attend 1 there are always some who growl and talk big before a meeting and are singularly quiet or absent when .the meeting takes, place, instead of helping their neighbours who have greater business ability. The following were elected on the Suppliers’ Committee: Messrs E. J. Smith (convener), J. O’Neil, and M. W. Smith. Mr Frisk,en officiated as scrutineer.

CONCERT AND DANCE,

A very successful concert and dance was held, in aid of the new local library. Songs were rendered by Mes.srs W. Horne, M. G. Smith, J. Gaynor, and another. Some school children . sang several items, under the direction of Miss Dunlop. Their acting and singing reflected, great credit, both on themselves and their teacher. Three orchestral items were rendered with credit by Mesdames Wynyard and Smith, and Messrs J. Moyle, H. Wynyard, W. Moyle, and E. J. Smith, these items evoking'considerable applause. Messrs Blanshard and Hannam officiated as M.’sC. The whole brought to the Library Fund, we understand, about £6.

ON DANCING.

Talking of dancing naturally brings one .to the controversy which has been going the round of the press as to the morality of this popular pastime. Some of the letters, I confess, have interested .and some amused- me. Not being a dancing man, I feel fairly neutral, and therefore better ab,le to. judge than if I were an exponent of the art. As far as I can see, wh.en all is said and done we come, to the good old dictum “To the pure all things are pure, and to the impure is no thing pure that is pure l .” If the people who decry dancing went, to socials, instead of sitting ac home and pointing a repioachful finger at those who go, they would, if they were as highly moral as they believe themselves to be, raise the general standard of those around them., As it is, according to their own showing, they give up the fight and let the Devil have things all his own way. “John the Baptist came neither eating no: drinking, and ye say he hath a devil. The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and ye say a glutanous person and a wine bibber.” These people remind one of the Puritans, 260 years ago, who pu£ down bull-baiting, not because it was cruel to the bull or the dogs, but because it gave amusement to others as hard-hearted! as themselves (Macauley), .and caused Christian people .to observe Christmas a fast, as a penance for celebrating the happiest of festivals with the eating of fat beef and plum pudding, and giving to those less fortunate than themselves.

Some people have minds so morbid that they would discover immorality in a cab accident.