KIO KIO.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 628, 17 December 1913, Page 5

KIO KIO.

Own Correspondent

The bazaar committee held a most successful pali! of work last Thursday in the JPuketarata Hall. Despite the most unfortunate weather rrcituJiti«>;i: 3 the attendance was vi ry fair, tin totally unexpected credit balance mi over .£■!(! boin<: a r , .n*iic nut nodes! on; of the business done. This beiaiK'f ]';;

ii) be devoted to the partial payment of the rather formidable ha!i o.du. The bazaar was declared open hy Mi:;!:. Phillip? after a short, natty, little speech by Mr JUidnc Dunn,".- the afternoon bueincps was brisk, but during the evening re:-;" ion mere bachelors in e\idoncc the ladies- -their consciences havine hem apparently laid aside--reaped a fine harvest of fliillinf by (lie- various legitimate methods of robbing common to bazaars. A Inrrro rahe containing half a sovereien realism over fifty shillings when sold in slices.

The sale of the last plica at a. laney figure, took placo just as a younp, lady quietly removed the half e<>v< noon from her mouth. Very little rympathy was expressed with the successful bidder for the lead slice. The bnildinjr itself wa.s irmM tastefully decorated with the usual masses of ferns and shrubs, and. indeed, the arrangements, complete as they were in every detail, roiicefrd preat credit on the roem'ocrs of the ladies' committee. To praise one where ail worked with audi enthusiasm seems an injustice to the nad, but a special word of praise is dim to Miss Phillips, but for whose aide management and painstaking energy the bazaar could not. have been such an unqualified success as it provod-