TARIKI.

Taranaki Daily News, 1 December 1922, Page 7

TARIKI.

(From Our Own Correspondent.) For the past week or ten days the weather has been very fine and particularly warm, more like January or February than that usually experienced in November. It has, however, been a boon to farmers, whose work, such as ploughing and otherwise preparing the soil for turnips and other crops, had been very much interfered with by the protracted spell of rough wet weather during the first two or three days of November. There appears to be an unusually large area of land under the plough, or l>eing prepared for the plough, in the district this year.

As predicted in some of my former notes, the Tariki breeders of pedigree Jersey stock were well represented at the Stratford A. and P. show, and a very fair proportion of prizes came to the district, Mr. C. Meuli, of Tariki Road, being particularly successful. Mr. Griffith Jones, of Tariki, is another exhibitor of whom mention should be made. Mr. Jones’ particular line is not the breeding of Jerseys, Frieeians, or any other kind of.stock. His exhibits consisted of fancy needlework, crochet and other filigaree generally to be found in some of the best millinery emporiums. Mr. Jones appears to have been gifted by nature to a wonderful degree in this» direction, and the deftness of his fingers, combined with his tasteful ideas, makes him at once the envy, as well as the “idol,” of all his young lady friends.

Mr. Jones has been very successful as an exhibitor of fancy work for some years, and in the home industries department of the recent Wanganui A. and P. show, won the following prizes: First prize for the handsomest and best worked cushion (mounted): second prize for the best exhibit of chochet in wool; second prize for the most effective table centre; very highly commended for the best exhibit of fancy work (four distinct samples).

At Stratford Mr. Jones was also a very successful exhibitor, gaining first prize for the best made up cushion embroidered in silk; first prize for best exhibit of Mountmcllick embroidery; rst prize for the best piece of crochet lace (coarse) with corner; second prize for the best set of two d’oyleys and table centre (coarse); third prize for the best exhibit of fancy needlework (six pieces), various kinds; third prize for the host piece of crochet lace (coarse) with corner.

On Monday night an exceedingly enjoyable concert was given in the local hall by Inglewood performers, the proceeds from which are to be applied to the Tariki Anglican Church funds. The audience, though not a large one, were thoroughly appreciative of the excellent programme submitted. The following are some of the items rendered: Song, Mr. Smith; song. Mr. Darlow; fancy dance. Miss McCallum: recitation, Mr. Partridge; song, Mrs. Faris: song. Mr. Darlow; dftnee, Mis* McCallum; song, Mrs. Faris; song, Mr. Smith; playett?. “Snowed Up With a Duchess,” by Mesdames Brown and Stanton and Misses Brown and McCallum.

A rather amusing story is going the rounds of Tariki jiwt now, in which a keen and enthusiastic gardener is chiefly concerned, and as 1 am only speaking from hearsay, 1 give it for what it is worth: “The gardener in question, who for the sake of convenience we will call Mac, was until recently very proud of what he believed to be an extremely well-grown row of young cabbages, and whenever opportunity served, would waylay some passer-by to whom he would proudly show them. All went well until one morning when Mac, in his exuberance of good spirit, called in -a too matter-of-fact hardened old sinner, named George, who. after gazing on the supposed cabbage, declared them to be nothing more nor less than wild turnips. George, it appears, was right, but Mac naturally couldn’t see it all at once, and the little argument that ensued has had the effect of putting a certain restraint on their hitherto good friendship. Mr. J. B. Hine, Reform candidate, paid a return visit to Tariki on Tuesday night, speaking to a very fair audience.

Mr. Cecil Meuli left Tariki on Tuesday to take up a position in Waitara.