WHANGAMOMONA NOTES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 29, 4 February 1914, Page 7

WHANGAMOMONA NOTES.

[from our own correspondent.]

3 he Stratford cricket team paid thdir

(promised visit here on Saturday night, and were welcomed by the members of •he local team. The match between the visitors and n combined local team was played on Sunday in wretched weather, heavy showers falling all through the day, driving tlie players many times to dielter. Stratford were the first to iat, and were all disposed of for 32 runs and the Whanga team scored 70 nins for eight wickets. Everything vas against either team doing itsejf ■ustico, and it is to be hoped that the ■eturn match will reveal the real playing strength of both. The ailmial meeting of Public Library subscribers is announced for Wednesday night (February 4th), when the annual report and balance-sheet will be presented, and the usual offices, illed.; The library is quietly and surey making headway, and it is expected • hat another batch of books will be on he shelves in time for V the winter nonths. At present we boast! about 500 volumes of selected popular books.

Mrs 1 F; Lundon •• arrived 1 hack''>i dn 1 Saturday night from a holiday spent in*Dunedin and Central Otago. The local school opened on Monlay. At Whanga school the vacanfcy on the teaching staff caused by the resignation of Mias F. Hill; has been filled by the appointment of Miss Irene McMeekan, late assistant at Pohokura school. Miss Olansen, of Wellington, succeeds Miss McMeekan at Pohokura.

The Whanga station buildings are almost completed and will be out of the contractor’s hands this week. .Now that the trees and scrub have been cleared away from the river bank, the station makes quite an imposing addition to the township. The Kohuratahi station buildings are now well in hand, and will be completed about Easter, and the railway connection should be complete between Stratford and Kohuratahi this winter.

As showing the amount of business opening up with Stratford and New Plymouth since the connection by coach with Ohura has been established, it is worthy of mention that many settlers in the King Country , are, getting their orders fulfilled through from this end. One settler has a six-ton order being sent through from New Plymouth, the coach taking as much as possible each trip. The amount of parcels carried through is surprising when one thinks of the short time the service has been established.

The Kohuratahi Sports Committee are getting busy making arrangements for their annual picnic on St. Patrick’s Day. Liberal support has been forthcoming, and given fine weather the meeting will maintain its reputation for a “good day out.” The Wlvanga Tennis Club will open their new courts here on Thursday week, .February 12th. Scratch games will be played and afternoon tea will be provided by the lady members. The Club have worked hard and waited patiently, and they have been rewarded by seeing at last a permanent etnnis ground, convenient to the township and very prettily situated within a belt of line native bush.