MATIERE.

King Country Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 219, 23 December 1909, Page 5

MATIERE.

After the holding of the ?tn*-fc »t Matiere last Wednesday, scvec-d settler* held a meeting and unanimously decided to entertain Mr \V. V. Jennings, member for Taomarunoi crectorate, at a banquet, in recognition of the valuable work he has done. The Premier and members of the Cabinet. also several promnient Auckland business men. are to be invited to attend. and the function is to be the largest c?cr yet held in th«j Ohura. A definite date has not yet been fixed, but it will be either in the last week of lanuary or the first week in February. Last Tuesday was one of note at the Otangiwai school, when Mr Crespin. of Auckland, presented the school with a Dominion Hag. Speeches* and cheer* suitable to the occasion were given, and the children of Otangiwai are very proud of their dag. The annual sports gathering of the Matte re Athletic Club was he! I last Friday. Beautiful weather favoured the sports, and the settlers and their wives and families came from mites round to attend. Everything pa»s«d off satisfactorily, and a dance was held in the evening in the Maticrc Half to finish off one cf the gala days of the Ohura.

At Matiere for the past few years. great difficulty ha* been experienced by the married workmen in getting booses for their families, but in Matie re this difficulty will soon be overcome, as one of the Obora's most successfol settlers has purchased a large block of land adjoining the Matiere township, and has built foor large cottages, wbicb are all let. A block of seven shops, with living rooms attached, are now in coarse of erection. In the same block of buildings a bit-Hard-room has been built, and the whale of the building will be occupied as soon as it is completed.