KAKAHU BUSH.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2390, 2 August 1892, Page 2

KAKAHU BUSH.

(From a Correspondent). As your readers will have seen by advertisement, our annual School Concert is to take place on Friday next, the sth August. A splendid collection of talent, vocal and instrumental, has been gathered together, kind friends from all parts having promised assistance, and we can guarantee to all who come a splendid evening's amusement, and to our friends the performers an enthusiastic welcome.

Since last writing, about a month ago, we have been busy on all hands. Thrashing being finished, grain carting was the order of the day, and while that businesß was going on, the complaints of the condition of the various fords were both loud and deep. Our energetic surfaceman and his assistants have now made a good job of all the fords on the Geraldine side of the Opihi; but the Opihi fords seem to be beyond the power of any surfaceman to keep in order, or perhaps they are only beyond his " section." Ploughing is going on apace now, and from present appearances there will be a good breadth of crop in this season. There is a lot of fencing being done too, as the drovers will find out when they next require to use our roads, and the runs are now fenced right along the roadline.

Old residents in the district will be perhaps interested to know that the last of the original station buildings near the school has gone, the old hut having been pulled down. Many a " swagger " will miss the old place, which has - stood since October 1856, when it was first built for the then owner, Mr Campion. Excepting where the earth had been piled against it, the timber (Manuka and Totara) was as sound as the day it was put up. A very pleasant social evening was spent at the school house on Friday, Bth July, when the young folks (and old folks too) to the number of about 70 turned up to enjoy one another's company, and assist to increase the funds of the Sunday School. The ladies looked after the good tilings for supper, and the gentlemen subscribed to the funds, the evening resulting in a handsome amount being collected by the Treasurer.