King Country Chronicle Wednesday, January 24, 1912.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 433, 24 January 1912, Page 4

King Country Chronicle Wednesday, January 24, 1912.

Mias Pine wishes to draw attention to the fact that a new quarter for muisc and painting commences on January 31st.* On Monday, next, 29th inst., St. Luke'B Sunday School picnic will be held in Mr Board's grounds at Hangatiki. It is expected a large number of parents and friends and some from outlying districts will be present. The picnic party will leave by the 10.50 train.

The Cambridge Dairy Co's. payj ments for December total £7398, an increase of £IOOB over the corresponding period of last year. It is expected that next month will show even a greater increase.

In speaking on the subject of roads on Monday evening Mr A. Scholes, County chairman, said he was already making considerable use of Mr Wil eon, member for the district. Whenever a settler became troublesome about a road of which he (the speaker) knew little, he always referred the man to Mr Wilson as the right person to deal with the matter. He supposed a day of reckoning would come and waß prepared to get a kick back at any time. The well-known Hotel Moana at Kawhia is now under entirely new management, having been taken over by Mr A. P. Potter. The house has been refurnished and renovated throughout and visitors to the charming King Country watering place can rely upon having their comfort attended to in every respect. As a seaside resort Kawhia is daily growing in popularity. It offers numerous attractions to visitors in the shape of harbour trips, splendid picnic resorts and a wide variety of beautiful Bcenery. Bathing on the beaches can be indulged in with perfect safety and excellent fishing is to be obtained in the harbours, while not the least attraction lies in the existence of the hot springs on the harbour front. The tariff of the Hotel Moana is extremely reasonable and special rates are quoted for families.

Mr C. K. Wilson, in proposing the toast of the Dairy Company on Monday evening, recounted an amusing story in reference to the HBtutenesß of the cow "cockie." During an election campaign a candidate for «r backblock electorate arrived at a settler's homestead just as the settler was struggling to get a heifer into the bail to milk her for the first time. The Bettler had no time to talk politics and the candidate took off his coat and gave material assistance in bailing up and leg-roping the animal. When the work was successfully accomplished, the candidate, feeling rather proud of himself and assured of his footing, on the principle that one good turn deserved another, said he reckoned he had taken the wind out of his opponent's sails. The cockie winked the other eye. and replied "Well, I'm not so sure about it. The other canddiate's out in the paddock Bitting on the calf."

Messrs St. Hill, Brathwaite and Co. report having put up for public auction on Saturday last, on account of the Public Trustee, the property of the late James Rodgers, Hangatiki. There was a good attendance of outside buyers from Auckland, Waikato, Gißborne and Tarnnaki. The property was sold at a satisfactory figure to MrG. Sutherland, of Hawera. This firm also arranged a sale of another property, on the same day, between Otorohanga and Hangatiki to a Giiborne buyer. Thev also report having sold another farm in the Mangaronga district to a local resident. Speaking at the dairy factory dinner on Monday evening, Mr A. Scholes, chairman of the Waitomo County Council, referred to the fashion of visitors to the district of publishing their vicwi on the King Country. These statements generally took the line of declaring the district to be lacking in progress and hampered by the taihoa policy and were calculated to lead the public to think we were behind the times in every respect. He had no hesitation in saying that no other district in the Dominion could ahow the same rate of progress that was being made in the King Country. Most of the impressions given to the newspapers by visitors Jcould be classed as arrant nonsense.