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Te Puke Times, Volume II, Issue II, 23 December 1913, Page 2

Mr A. H. Pinker, market gardener, notifies that'he will wait oa customers to-morrow with a choice assortment of vegetables, grown in his local garden. A line of 3800 wethers passed through Te Puke this They came from Opotiki, and were being driven through to the Thames.

The annual sports meeting at "Maketu will be held on Boxing Day as usual,. and a good programme of events for children and adults has been prepared. Trophies have been presented by Messrs Wilson and Robbins, J. Turney, and R. Brownlee. Mr Kiri Tapsell is Secretary. The name of the Upper Te Matai School has been altered, after consultation between the committee, Mr Carson) the teacher) and the settlers, to that of Te Ranga. The change has been made to avoid confusion with the Te Matai School.

Those in search of New Year gifts.cannot do better than pay a visit to the well-known establishment of Mr J. Murdoch, jeweller, of Tauranga. Here will be found a splendid range of articles suitable for presents, and at prices to suit all pockets.

The ceremony of unveiling a monument, erected to the memory of Maraea Rota, the daughter of a late well-known Native assessor, her son, Te Makaihue, Te Hira Toheriri, and Eri Ropata, four local Natives, will take place at Rangiuru on Christmas Day, Pakeha friends are cordially invited to be present. Master Bruce Robertson, a son of Mr J. S. Robertson, of Te Matai, had the misfortune" to fall from his horse at school last week and break his leg below the knee. The services of Dr Young were promptly requisitioned, and the lad, who is now an inmate of Nurse Bryant's Nursing Home, is doing as well as can be expected.

In accordance with 'a resolution Dassed at the last parish meeting, the churchwardens of St. John's Church have placed suitable accommodation for kneeling throughout the building The suggestion Wis now been made that these should become a Christmas present from the congregation, the cost of which, it is hoped, will be met by the offerings of Christmas Day. New Zealand cannot afford the cost of Red Federalism, with its continual threat of dislocation of trade and industry, and damage to the country's .credit. New Zcalanders- have to crush Red Federalism or be .crashed by it. No peace which acknowledges the Red Federation can be a peace with honour, nor a peace with any-security of tenure. Red Federalism, which is injurious to all classes of the community has to ba fought to a finish. -Wellington Post. , '

The annual picnic in connection with the Upper Te Matai School was held last week,, and proved a thoroughly enjoyable outing. Prior to the conclusion of the festivities Mr J. Vercoe, in felicitous term?, alluded to the happy relations which existed between the teacher and the scholars, and to the manner in which the children had progressed in their studies under Mr Carson's tuition. Mr Vercoe's eulogy was endorsed'by Mr T. McGce, the remarks'of the two speaker's being heartily applauded.

An American who has just "done " New Zealand has written a book. Here is his description of Rotorua :-" This violent, vaporous land is ulcerous with turbulent,' nauseous mud-holes, and scabbly with the white sterility of silica. Earthquake tremors frequently shake it, and it throbs with the pulsation of subterranean boilers. It has steaming lakes, pools, and streams, healing baths and springs, acidulous basins of emerald, opal, and orange, and tinted terraces of sinter. From smoking crater come deadly gases, and on mountain top is heated turmoil amidst snow and ice. Here are therman islands in the sea, and buried villages ashore. Here, in this warming pan,' this put-door kitchen, are roaring steam vents, simmering shallows, and sweating sulphur. In populous centres, in untenanted swamp and manuka waste are plutonic vapours, infuriate mud and spouting water. In this realm of hidden fires are clear cold lakes in the shades of lovely forests." •

Notice is given that the Te Puke timber yard will be closed from December 24th, until January sth, 1914. , Applications' for the New Zea-./ •. land war medal will close at Headquarters, N. Z. Military Forces, Wellington, on March' 31, 1914, after which date no further claims wil| be considered. The monthly meeting of the Papamoa branch of the Farmers' • Union will be held on Friday, January 2nd, 1914, at 7.30 p.m. • Mr J. Clansy, of Taumaranui, who 1 took a prominenta* part in . thetßlackball strike, will contest the Waimarino seat at the general election, as a Red Fed, in opposition to Mr R. W. Smith, 'the sitting member. The meeting of the Bay o^' Plenty Hospital and Charitabl e Aid Board, which was to have taken place at Whakatane. on Wednesday last, did not , ate, owing to a quorum not beinpP present. The members'present Messrs Peebles, Stuart and Lally,, held a committee meeting, and transacted the most important business requiring. the' attention , of the Board. ,'.,'. Captain "Wallingford,. chief musketry instructor for the Auckland district, who for years was champion shot in the British army, and whose'record has only been beaten by one point, attended! the rifle meeting, held a. few days ago in Cambridge.' He' demonstrated his ability with the revolver by rapidly firing five shots at 15yds, and the bullet marks all touched each other. His record with the rifle is ,33 bulls' eyes at 500 yards in a minute, and he holds the record with a machire jtin of 900 rounds in a& ! like. pejjßjj while the averager machine gunner's best.rate it) about 460 rounds. "A weaker, madder, more', foolish, more reckless action I have never witnessed," said Mr Isitt in the House, in referring, to the charge of the mounted specials in the, Wellington. Post Office square. " Did you see the horse shot ?" asked the Prime Minister. Mr Isitt said he had not, but he believed a hors° had ' been shot. Sir Walter Buchanan described,Mr Isitt as "a bluster- . - ing demagogue." The member for Christchurch North, he added, who had always professed tem- ( perance, was the most intemperate speaker in the House."' Even' the desk in front of him was apt to be demolished by the-vehem-ence 1 of ignorance. '' "" '"'■ . - The following clipping from a Home paper has been handed us and may be of interest to. our readers: - " Life in New Zealand presents many remarkable as* i pacts, but what will, perhaps strike a visitor most is the peculiar snobbishness to be found in its villages. In some of these j little communities many • of theJ\ residents have never been for more than a few miles from their own doorsteps, and to their. , environment is no doubt due the caddishness .and small-minded-ness that is so noticeable. To an onlooker the self-sufficiency of these rural inhabitants is truly diverting: They are as a rule divided into little sets or cliques, and it would'be quite derogatory for Mrs Jones of No. 1 to speak to Mrs Brown of No. 2. , A .little experience of the world would be invaluable to these good people in showing them how very small they really are,