TE RAUAMOA.

King Country Chronicle, Volume IX, Issue 736, 13 January 1915, Page 5

TE RAUAMOA.

Own Correspondsnt

No one can reproach this district with lukewarmness regarding the part in the Great War. We have given freely of our manhood and our substance. Not ov,ls was the war fund generously supported, but four of our pioneers have put aside the axe to take up the gun. The last, to follow the good example of Messrs Lorenz, Stewart, and Hogarth is Mr Harold Franklin, a worthy son of Ta Rauamoa, hs having lived here from boyhood. The residents rightly gave our trooper a send-off. A large and representative gathering aasanjbled in Mrs Stewart's boarding house on Wednesday night, to bid him farewell and wish him a safe return to his native land when th 9 titanic struggle in Eurpoe is at an endFour pupils of the local school are to be congratulated for collecting the sum of £7 13a towards the relief of Belgian orphans. This sum was paid over to the treasurer of the fund at Auckalnd. A word of praise ia due to Miss Hilda Parkinson, having collected about half the amount.

A party of surveyors is at work cutting up the large block of Crown knd near here, into sections of about 300 acres. With tha settlement of this block of about 5000 acres a very considerable rise in land values is anticipated. Shearing is not yet over the wetness of the summer delaying this work. But it's anjll-wiqd that blows no one good, The season is an ideal one in other respacts, grass and all crops being first-class.