DISTRICT NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 26 August 1922, Page 3

DISTRICT NEWS.

OAKURA. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Now that winter is passing and all the euchre parties are at an end, a lull seems to have settled over the district., Were it not for the supply of books in our library and the little tit-bits of news to be foijnd here and there in our local newspapers we would be almost compelled to growl, as we are led to understand they do in a few of the neighboring towns. But we are not to be left for long to Sit and think over the pleasures that are gone. Rumor has it that some new form of entertainment, such as a high-class concert, is in contemplation, and a meeting has been convened to consider the question. What decision will be arrived at. it as yet hard to say, but all householders are invited to make suggestions In order that the arrangements come to as a result of the gathering may please the majority. And. better 1 still, that "masterful, mysterious, mirth-making McEwen” is desirous of paying us a visit to give a display of his wonderful powers of hypnotism and mesmerism. A definite date has not been fixed, but the great night of "shocks, thrills, and laughter” is probably not far distant. Yet another of our residents has left us. This time it is Mr. George Hucker, who has been employed for some time in the Patua factory as cheese-maker, and who has recently received the appointment of manager of the Korn factory. This year the boys and girls attending the Oakura school have made up their minds to take part In the root competitions in connection with the boys’ and girls’ agricultural clubs. They have- also decided to enter for a potato-growing contest, in which are a number of other schools surrounding New Plymouth. It is to be hoped that in this, their first effort, they may achieve at least a measure of success. The school has broken up for a fortnight's vacation, and during that time the competitors’ intentions are to get to ; work making ready the plots 16^01,wtirry to putting in th® * v