PIO PIO.

King Country Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 231, 5 February 1910, Page 5

PIO PIO.

Own Correspondent. Since my- last letter the continuous rains of last week-end have cut up our roads very badly. This has been a red-letter week for jp"'"Ffo'Pio. Our settlers are all pleased to hear that the Government has deter■l mined to spend £3OOO on the Te KuitiJ Awakino road; a further piece of most interesting information is that the Pio Pio Co-operative Dairy Co. 's section has -been gazetted. Some .weeks ego I criticised the directors for not showing their hands, but lam glad to admit that they have been working in the interests of all concerned. The directors are now hard at work holding meetings to make the enterprise a success. I am pleased to see that cur schoolmaster, Mr Benton, has returned, after hiS'-Christmas vacation. It is also good news to find that the Education Board has upheld the present situation for the school and that the increase in attendance of nine European children and one Native child goes to justify that decision. The Commissioner is to be thanked for securing the provision of necessary outbuildings for the use of the separate sexes. The school onened with 82 pupils on the rolls and an attendance of 27. I know there are more children to come. I would like to suggest to the Commissioner that he get the windows frosted, and thus keep down outside inquisitiveness and inside curiosity. Mr Tarrant has naarly completed the new billiard room,and Mr V. S. Hattaway has got the timber on his ground for his new boardinghouse. Pio -y Pio wil} be a very lively centre within a few weeks. I am sorry to hear that one of our settlers has lost a valuable horse through choking. The poor old grey will never be seen again-running on our main roads. Feed is plentiful in the district and settlers are busy preparing the ground for growing winter feed for the dairy herds. The noxious -weed inspector has taken my notes of the other week io heart as he has visited the seven-mile peg and cut down the ragwort I complained about.