Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News TUESDAY, AUGUST 31, 1909. THE COMING CARNIVAL.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4456, 31 August 1909, Page 2

Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News TUESDAY, AUGUST 31, 1909. THE COMING CARNIVAL.

About next Easter when the Carnival now talked about, expected, and longed for, has become an accomplished fact, Te Aroha will wear an aspect of gaiety. We will all of us vie with each other in contributing each one his own fair share to the approaching festivities. And if each person will bear a hand, we can then with a long pull, a strong pull, and a pull altogether, carry our arrangements to the crowning triumph of success. But we can not afford to lose the co-operative efforts of young men or maidens, old men or children, because this is a work for everybody- It must not be left entirely to the Committee. That would not be fair. The gentlemen who have so kindly consented to act as a Committee have been placed in that important position by the people. In good faith they re* lied on the support of the people and, we trust and believe, that the Committee will not be disappointed. The first step towards success is to get up enthusiasm. Steam makes the commercial leviathan plough her way through the deep, and the wheels of the railway train spin through the land ; and enthusiasm stimulates peoples to achieve their best and most important undertakings. Enthusiasm is as necessary for the successfully and creditably carrying through of this Carnival, as steam is necessary for the effective and satisfactory working of a steamship ora railway train. Those of us who have made Te Aroha our home, and who want to see this dis- , trict prosper, and better known by i strangers, cannot but become enthusiastic over so important a matter as the Carnival. Te Aroha has some examples set her. Rotorua, for instance, arose to the occasion and became so enthusiastic as to “astonish the natives” and win the laurels of success, It was not the evanescent triumph of an hour, because it drew people from afar who have now become lifelong gratuitous advertisers who tell their friends of Rotorua, a wonder* land of New Zealand. We too have a wonderland at Te Aroha. Let us make it known,

At the public meeting, Mr J. Rowe, the Deputy Mayor, when piesiding over it said very truly; “He considered that if Rotorua was capable of running a Carnival we in tkis district can do so.” Of course we CM, and we will too. In China they have started what is called “ A Roust-about Society *’ te wake people up to social effort. After abont four thousand years it has dawned upon the Conservative Chinese brain that John ought to do more than use a chop-stick and look out for number one- So vigorously is he being poked up by the Roust-abouts, that he is beginning to rub his eyes and work for the corporate life. Let us wake up and look alive, so that we may one and all bear up the hands of the Committee. We must not work as if to-morrow will do, but we must take time by the forelock and tuck up our sleeves. It will be no child’s play to make a success of this Carnival, such as Te Aroha may be proud of. Some will need to give money, some money and labour too, others only labour, and some all of these. Ladies will be had in requisition, for without the hearty and loyal co • operation of the ladies the men would soon throw up the work. But the fair sex will rise to the occasion, and will thereby stimulate the men to earnest endeavours and thus secure success to Te Aroha. fl So mote it beand when after Easter we are gathering the fruits of our united toil for the Carnival, we shall forget the long hours of weary work in the gladness of having contributed to the renown of Te Aroha and the joyous pleasure of thousands of visitors.