WHANGAMONA NOTES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 86, 24 November 1911, Page 7

WHANGAMONA NOTES.

(From our own Correspondent.)

This spring has hecu one of the roughest on record. Here are we within a month of Christmas still plodding through bottomless mud and mire, and there is every indication that wo are likely to for a while yet. The Sports Committee have been busy lately arranging the details of our annual function. A large am omit of money has been donated and guaranteed, and given a fine day (just one, Mr Weatherman, please) the meeting will prove a record bno in every way. Numbers of people here are making a trip to Stratford Show next week. A special train from the 33mile siding in tiie morning and returning at night would undoubtedly be well patronised. A little girl named Vera Anderson, one of the local school pupils, broke her arm last week, through falling from a see-saw. She was taken to Stratford and at latest report was making favourable progress. Miss C. Calgher is back here again after a long holiday in Now Plymouth. The Whanga and Pohokura schools met in the local grounds last Saturday to try conclusions in a game of cricket. The match was played in a good-humoured, sporting spirit, the local boys proving the victors by 29 runs. After the game all present partook of the afternoon tea kindly provided by the ladies of \V hangamomona. Mr Ceo. Klee is at present spending a holiday here with ids brother. Ho expressed surprise at the advance this township lias made during the last 12 months. The road beyond us towards Kohuratahi is beginning to feel the strain of heavy traffic in connection with the railway works. in one place where a deviation has been made the road is very nearly impassable. Messrs Court and Cottier intend shortly to add an up-to-date small goods department to their butchers business. I am confident that the venture will meet with solid support, Mrs Dean ‘‘swept the board” with her fawn pug dogs at Wanganui hist week, securing 25 tickets, including 14 lirsts, 2 specials, and a chcallenge cup. Mrs Dean purposes sending the same team to Stratford Show next week. At Mr Hine’s political meeting last Friday there was a good deal of goodhumoured heckling, some of the interjections being witty and some merely frivolous. At one stage of the meeting when the candidate was speaking on land deals and incidentally “dummying,” someone interjected: “Did you ever, work a dummy F” The reply came quickly from Mr Hine—“Not since 1 was a baby,” and the crowd smiled again.