RAHOTU.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 5, 7 January 1903, Page 2

RAHOTU.

(From oue Ows Cobeespohdent.) Mr. K. R. Moroan, of Kahui-road, who-e decease has been some time apprehended passed away on Sunday night last. Being widely known and an old settler in the district he will be greatly mi-sed and regretted ard much sympathy will be felt for the bereaved family. His decease creates a vacancy in of the Farihaka Ro*d Board, which office he has recently filled efficiently. He always took considerable intt rest in public affairs and was i are y, if ever, missing at the election of the local school committee He had s)me familiarity with statute law and was not unnaturally an oracle often on dispu ed points. His personality was so unique that he will be missed the put e. Th 6 unfortuna'e weather of New Year's Day compelled postponement till the morrow of the Warei basket picnic though ardent spirits rou'd cotdelay the evening skip on a "good floor," which ctme off to date in somewhat diminished numbers. Th<* pionic was also tuuller than it tbe wont at Wares.

Okito postponed its picnio also with considerable mirgiring on the part of i s promoters that the| ordered edibles would prove "dead, stook" to be parted with at a ■tcrifije. Contary to expectation both in number and proceed**, the gathering was one of the raoßt successful since it became an annual fix ure. Some 35 visitors hailed from R ihotu, and loral friends of every hue filled every available seat For the evening concert. The Mifses Putt and Roebuck sang toge'her, as did alse the Misses Jean and Oorbe't. Miss B; owning sing two songs. Messrs Robinson, A. W< Hs, E. Leedom, and Q. H. White also contributed several vocal and instrumental iterrs. The audience was appreciative, and ins : sti'd on several eucor, s. The result will be a reduction of tha trust debt on the Methodist < hurch of sjme seven guineas—which, from a statemimt nude by Mr Hugbson, is now on'y 12£ per cen r > on the total ou 1 >y, and is had without interes'. from ooe of the bet.evolent and commercial funds of tie Methodist church, repayable by eesy instalments, to be agtin himiUrly sn I generously lo>ned to other now and ne ding enterprises. Pungarehu in to lo'e its chief citizen. Mr Mcßeyoeld's, its p-puhr J.P., and who might be almost correctly termed the father of thi township, haviog d'spos. d of his bu ices to Messrs Pwlhum and Ompauy, who are to take pot- | se-sion at the end of the current month. I The Police Station, fo long on the hill summi 1 ', is also tn be taken away, end ; though it is s id the Post Office is to be removed into the town <hip, it will teem to old residents as if" ancient landmarks" had suffered sacriligious removal.