KIRITEHERE-MOEATOA.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 424, 20 December 1911, Page 3

KIRITEHERE-MOEATOA.

Own Correspondent. A meeting of members of the Marokopa Philosophical Discussing Society was convened in Mr T. Johnson's lodgings, the hall being in possession of the ladies and those who tripped the light fantastic toe, in Marokopa on the evening of the 11th inst. Mr Percy Bell was appointed secretary with Mr Johnson in the chair, and Messrs Bell, Fox and Stanley as acting committee which will draw up a set of rules for the approval of the members at the next meeting, which will be held after Christmas. The object of the society is an educational one, which, if carried out as it is proposed, will be of great service as an educator to the young men of the district, and especially to those who wouid like to hear the current subjects of of the day in art, science, philosophy and politics discussed in plain, simpte language. The membership fee is 2s 6d, and a small silver collection Will be taken after each meeting and this, after the few incidental expenses are paid, will be devoted to some hospital or other benevolent humanitarian object. In the dawn of an early summer's morning, with the wind from the eust blowing strongly over the surf beaten shore the flat backrgound that stret'4 ches away from the little township of Marokopa, resounds to the wild, sweet notes of the skylark, of which many poets have sung

"Bird of the wilderness, "Blithaome and cumberless.

Before the sun has risen over the tumbling league 3of sea, and while the dawn-clouds are as yet untouched with colour, the warbling strain of score so little feathered songsters, <( are in the downy cloud" of early morn, come down to us as we step out of the heated atmosphere of a crowded ball room into the fresh salt air. Already in the bush the native birds have burst into full throated song to welcome the dawn. Every year now these native birds will sing further back as settlement advances until they are driven to starve and die out in their own scanty reserves However, that is some few years distant, as the native land question in the King Country remains to be settled, and until that time the skylark will not oust the tui. An effort is being made to obtain a bi-weekly mail service via Mangaohae, Moeatoa, Kiritehere to Marokopa. The service with Te Kuiti being same excepting that it is proposed to be run twice a week instead of the present once a week service.

Mr Newton, surveyor, is cutting up a block of land at the back...of -*4ae