PROVINCIAL NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 26 August 1907, Page 4

PROVINCIAL NEWS.

TOXGAPORUTU. , The willow and the gooseberry are green, the plum is in blossom, and he grss is green. Early potatoes ire .through the ground. [ It is said that politicians are like spiders so born; not so road inspectors [and county councillors. A long, long apprenticeship is necessary. There is but one man on the road [on co-operative work from Mangaroa to here, and he is going to be paid off, as the exchequer is emptv. There is any quantity of bush ehop-i jping, large blocks being felled. I There is great discontent in Ok.in over a school. There are from 15 to 20 of school age in Okau, which should warrant one being established, yet t'ie Bonrd of Education will not give it. The Board sent Mr Fanll in to report. He did not go to Okau. He went ind eaw the chairmrn of the Tonga porulu school and the teacher, and rejwrted adversely on Okau. The Tongaporutu committee arc very much against the Okui schooKThey want a .bellyful of learning sror are dead against halftime. The majority of the children are a couple of miles beyond here, one man having eight of school age and not able to provide them with horses. The road, too, is all but impassable, except for a little while in summer, and from four to seven miles is too far to go. are more children in Okau than in Tongaporntu, and the former is growing while the latter is going back. There is no doubt but what they must get a school. A euchre party was held in the Tongaporutu hall on the 10th, a dance following. The affair was a failure. The few who were there went from Okau. . Mr Montgomery has had four ewes worried by pig-dogs. This is a serious matter when the ewes are lambing. A few of our young folk are getting married during the slack season, and, houses are being put up.