PIOPIO.

King Country Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 163, 10 June 1909, Page 5

PIOPIO.

(Own Correspondent.)

The athonl recently opened atPiopJo bgr the Education Board is programing satisfactorily and is being welt ad by both European* and Maori ehil* dren. The roil number is now 27 and it la expected that next summer the total will be considerably swelled. Up to the present there has been no committee appointed and the parents are moving in the direction of having a commissioner appointed to look after tbe nana! requirements. It is understand that Mr G J. Bevege is to be requested to take the position of commissioner and his well-known interest in matters effecting the district renders the choice a popular one. At present the school is being contacted in the Mireahoiao Half, but a twoacre section in an excellent position las been donated as a school sit* by Mr Mae Bemara,and it is now intended to apply to the Board of Education for a building. With a free site there is every inducement for the Board to erect the building, especially as the necessity for a school has been demonstrated, and it is hoped the work wilt ho accomplished next summer. Dairy Factory matters are now well k in train and there is every reason to * hope that the factory wilt be in running order early in the coming season. Intending suppliers will ha«e ample time to provdie the necessary cows and plant for starting work, and judging from the interest displayed, there is little doubt that dairying has come to stay. __ I

The agitation in connection with the Sroponed deviation of the Stratford lain Trunk railway te being splendidly panned, and it is understood that Messrs O'Dwyer and Jackson are to proceed to Wellington hi the interests of the Mokau— Waitewhena Railway League. The roads until last week, have not been extreme ty bad, bat the last rains have made a tig difference and we are now greeted with the sight of our old familiar mod channels. The settler* M* hoping that next summer will see •Mg difference to the main road, and that the metalfcd portion will be extended much nearer to Piopio