KOHURATAHI NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 73, 22 March 1912, Page 5

KOHURATAHI NEWS.

(From Our Own Correspondent.) Wc are enjoying a few days’ fine weather. We may yet have good bush burns through the district. Who can say? There are thousands of acres waiting for the match, but the very wet summer has made burning impossible. Many settlers are trying to dispose of their grass seed, ordoicd some months ago. Messrs. Best Bros, have returned from Hawke’s Bay to further develop their farm at Waipapa. Mr. Moreby is making arrangements to have a house built on his farm, and intends beginning bushfelling immediately, with the hope of getting a good and an early burn next summer.

Mi-. H. Catton, of Invercargill, is spending a holiday here with friends. He has left the teaching profession and opened an electrician’s business at Invercargill. Old friends will be glad to hear that he is doing well. Mr. Dick Aylward lias returned home after a trip to Canterbury. The Kohuratahi St. Patrick’s Day sports were hold on Monday in splendid weather. It is worthy' of notice that during nine years we have not yet been unlucky enough to strike a wet day. There was a very big attendance of the public, and some good sport was witnessed. The Masters Cup fell into new hands, this time being won by Mr. Harre, of Whitianga, the late holder, Mr. Arthur Clehmd, finding the handicap too much to make up on a small tracK. There was considerable delay and irritation over arrangements for the 18in. chop, but it .was eventually got olf about half-past four o’clock, Mr. Marsh, of Mangere Road, warning by a comfortable margin from Mr. Gordon .Wilson, the second man. Mr. Ned Shewry then gave an exhibition chop and was loudly cheered on finishing. Nod is at present Taranaki’s best axeman, and Kohuratahi is proud to boast him one of her own. In the evening a dance was held in the hall, there being a recoil crowd present. The hall, in fact, was too mil to bo altogether pleasant. Yet people had come there to enjoy themselves, and that they did right royally till daylight. During the evening song;; wt're contributed by Messrs. Fawmier and Cronin, and V e rr i.hc was supplied, by Mr. Geo. Thomas (piano) and Messrs. C. Howe and W. Schneider (violins).