Out East.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 9, 10 January 1914, Page 5

Out East.

AT WHANGAMOMONA. NEWS AND NOTES. (By Our Travelling Reporter.) Thursday was a gala day for the township of Whangamomona. The sports in the afternoon attracted to the settlement a good number of outside competitors and a large number of .district residents as spectators. Despite the large number of people about proceedings were orderly, though everybody seemed to enjoy themselves to the full. The day’s jollity was brought to a close in ’ time-honored fashion by the holding of an enjoyable dance in the Public Hall, at which there was a great- crowd. Wh angamomona "boasts one public street light and, apparently, at least one of the genus hoodlum. One night recently this solitary light was interfered with by some person or persons and certain appointments were broken. Perhaps it is merely a forecast of greater things to come—when [Whangamomona will have numberless 'street lights and equally numberless ;people who will derive pleasure from [the breaking of them. I | Economy is Always Commendable. jThe Sports dub procured a certain 1 number of blocks; but when Thursday’s programme chops were finished there still remained a number of spare blocks, and the canny committeemen decided to have a chop among ‘themselves with the idea of using up jthe timber. But on Friday morning 'there were still some unused blocks, and a friendly match was arranged between Rawlinson and Ben Xewstroski—l2in. standing. Xewstroski turned round first, but left .his scarf pretty dirty. Rawlinson did not hurry about turning round and went round some time later, leaving, however, a nice clean, scarf. Xewstroski had his block on the topple first, but Rawlinson’s two clean scarfs enabled him to win by a stroke. Time 33sec.

After the match, Ned Shewry, Thursday’s good winner, arrived on the scene and offered to chop Bawlinson. There were still blocks and to spare, and so* two more were trimmed and mounted.

Both men operated like workmen, but Rawlinson was nervous and made mistakes. Shewry was first to turn round and won by a big margin in 32 4-osoc. The blocks, inspected afterwards, showed '•emarkably clean work. | With practice in big chops, Rawlinisorr should make n name-for himsalf. Further matches were precluded by the fact that the train was due to leave soon. Tom Metre’s Prophecy. Tom Moore had hard luck on his Ohnra run for the recent holidays. He had properly advertised his coach, trip to Okahukura and received upwards of a hundred inquiries from people wishing to make the run; but owing to the big slip in the Tangarakau Gorge he could not guarantee to get anybody through. However, he expresses himself as determined to stick to the run. Here and There. The dance in the. Hall on Thursday night emphasised the fact that very soon residents will have to consider the matter of building a larger and more convenient hall.

One of the gentlemen who attended the sports for the' purpose of picking up sixpences belonging to persons with “ a straight eye and a steady hand” had the misfortune to lose the train on Friday morning. No doubt he will improve the shining hour by picking up further sixpences—unless his paraphernalia went on by train. A tip for business men; Buy sections at Whangampmona. There was a fortune-teller at the sports, and every other man in Whangamomona is, according to her. to come into a fortune. If the other half of the population had consulted her, per-

haps every resident would be await-

ing a fortune

A soft, steady rain commenced to fall on Friday, and nobody seemed to be altogether displeased. There were j those who grumbled about spoilt I “burns,” those who had shearing to do, and those who regretted not having had their grass seed down; but the general opinion was that the rain would do a lot of good, anyway. The two sports committeemen who had an extra run on Thursday have not yet finished their dispute. The winner of the race ou Thursday, off scratch, will have in concede five yards in a further race.