Te Rau-a-moa.

Kawhia Settler and Raglan Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 329, 13 September 1907, Page 2

Te Rau-a-moa.

(FROM OUR OWS OORRK.-rONDEKT.) S>me months agi the set'lerg here mot together to c insider ways and means of erecting a public ball. Tbe school house is the only building available for bolding entertainmants in, and all are aware that it is too small for such purposes. Progress was so far made that au order was placed for tbe cutting of tbe timber, but a regrettable incident frustrating the hall idea, subsequently occurred, the details of which are better left untold. The estimated cost of the ball wm about £l2O, which seems a lotcf money for a band of struggling settlers to find. It has been suggested that if the main schod room ware enlarged by removing a petition which forms tbe porch, and a porch erec'.ud at tbe end of tbe building, lovers of dancing would have at a trifling cost what the ball was intended to supply. There is sufficient money in hand—a balance from some recent festivity—to affect these improvements, and there is no likelihood tbe Education Bosrd will object to their property being improved. Lambing is more than half over, aud notwithstanding the severity of the weather, good percentages are expected. Tbe school is still closed owing to ths illness of Miss Ashby, the teacher. Cows are calving everywhere, and the peaceful solitude of the quaint little village is broken by the cries of wee bovine strangers.