WHANGAMOMONA NOTES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 49, 27 February 1913, Page 6

WHANGAMOMONA NOTES.

Mr Bert Fittam arrived back at Whanga. on ’Tuesday night, after spending a short holiday outside. Messrs Marsh Bros, have returned ( do Whangamomona after spending a two mouths’ holiday at Taihape, A portion of tho tram line from the railhead to Whanga. is now being i pulled up and the permanent way put i down. Mrs Willis, of Inglewood, who has been paying a visit to her sister, Mrs] Cutter, returned borne on Monday. Tho Putikituna Rond has suffered considerably lately by slips, the whole road from end to end lias slipped badly, and in some instances the road is practically blocked. Messrs. Grant and Claridgo brought in on Monday from Huiroa, a line of shorn lambs, which they are putting on their new burn.

Messrs. Parsons Pros., of Koliuratahi, arc largely extending their residence in anticipation of the rest of their family coining to settle down there. The remaining two bridges to complete the line to the Whangamomona township have been commenced, and a big crowd of men are busily engaged putting them through. When finished, the train can carry goods and passengers right to the stationyard, thus saving the changes and delays from Pohokura. to AVhangamomona

Tiie Whanga.-Kohuratahi Shorts Club met last evening, when a statement of accounts came forward for consideration. A number of accounts were passed for payment, and the matter of holding a dance to augment the farms was held over till next meeting. A working beo was arranged to remove and store the property of the Club’s lying in the domain. The contractors for the levelling and clearing of the Whangamomona Domain, Messrs Robinson and. Jensen, have erected their camp, .and are starting operations immediately. The work is to bo carried out under the supervision of Messrs Robinson and Christophers, engineers, of Stratford. ' A farewell and presentation to Mr and Mrs / Calgher and family takes place to-night, and there are ample indications of a very successful social evening. General regret is expressed at the departure of the Calghor family from the district. it is understood that they purpose taking over the Rahotu hotel. Miss M. Wilson, mistress of the j Marco Road school, was so far indisposed this week as to prevent her from teaching in the school on Monday. After this month, Miss Wilson takes a well-earned four months ’holiday, when Miss K. Wilson (her sister) will take charge. The applications for a medical practitioner for Whangamomona district closes on Friday, and a meeting of the .Association will be held early" mxt week to select one of the applicants and arrange for his early arrival in the district, Mr F. Grayling, contractor for the bridges in the Tangarakau Gorge, left for New Plymouth on Wednesday, and expects to return by motor car on Saturday or Sunday next. A considerable number of Whangarnomona residents have already gone to be present at the New Plymouth Show, and a large number went out by the early train this morning. The school ground being in. a lowlying position is full of water puddles in wet weather, and the schoolmaster is at present indulging in some muscular exercise by digging a deep drain along the front of the ground to the river, to take away the bulk of tlie surface water. ;

Mr W. Alyward, of JCohuratal/i, has a paddock of maize which has grown to an immense height, some of the stalks measuring over 13 feet high, with a good crop of cobs. A photograph has been obtained, with the family group in the foreground. A deputation of Whangamomona residents waited on the Minister of Railways and other officials at Pohokura last week with respect to an alteration in tho train time-table, etc., and was informed that, as the train was expected to reach Whangainomona in about three months’ time, no alterations syt present would be made.

The Kohuratahi cobweb social, held on Friday night last, proved a great success, despite the wet, wild night that it was. The unravelling of the mysterious “cobweb” proved a source of unending fun and excitement, the various strands of the web being set and knotted and bidden in true “conjuror” fashion. The Hall was packed to its limit, and dancing was kept up with vim and vigor until the early hours of tho morning. Mr F. Boyce has obtained six pedigree silver Wyandottes from a prominent Wellington fancier, and intends going in for egg-prod net ion on tho latest approved system. The birds are handsome specimens of their breed, but owing to some extraordinary delay in arriving from Stratford, showed slight signs of the journey, Mr W. Willis is at present spending a short holiday at New Plymouth. A man employed on the Tahora tunnel works met with an accident on Tuesday, which necessitated his removed to Stratford, While working in tho tunnel, a piece of falling papa struck him on the back, but the -extent of tho injury is not so far known. Mr I). Wildermotb, the popular driver of the horse tram between the railhead and Whangamomona, met with a painful accident on Tuesday, which might easily have led to more, serious results. He was struck by a steel splinter, the piece lodging in the pupil of the eye. Tho obstruction

was extracted I;y Mrs Reader, but not without some difficulty and uuieb pain. The annual meeting of the Whangamomona Public Library takes place on Tuesday evening, when the report and balance sheet will he presented. The Library is steadily making members, but deserves tar more support from the public than it is at present receiving. The question of making the Library’s wants more widely known will he discussed at the meeting, and an attempt made to devise a scheme whereby the Library will he taken full advantage of.