WAITAHUNA.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VII, Issue 334, 28 February 1874, Page 2

WAITAHUNA.

(From a Correspondent.)

The unf orvable weather -we have had during the weet has interfered considerably with harvesting operations, and it trill require several days' fine weather ere they can be resumed. The yield has in some instance's been very good, as much, as 60 or 70 bushels of oats to the acre ; but, on the whole, the crop of .cereab is said to be a fair average one. A meeting of the Waitahuna Minors' Association was held on the 16th curt., at which, it was resolved not to appoint a delegate to represent Waitahuna at the Mining Conference to be held at Clyde, on the 2nd prox. Mining matters are rather duli, many df those engaged in that occupation having obtained protection for their claims, owing to the scarcity of water, and betaken themselves to" navvy and harvest work ; good hands at either finding no difficulty in dbtftining employment. I have heard that at a recent meeting of the Waitahuna District School Committee, the Secretary was directed to ascertain from the Education Board the powers of the District Committees with regard to side or subsidised schools established in their respective districts ; and received a reply to the dfect that both are under the supervision o» District School Committees, or rathei^^Rt they have jurisdiction over them, -which amounts to the same thing, I suppose. If the various District Committees throughQufc the province carry out what appears to be their duty, some of them will find work enough to do ; take the Tuapeka School Committee — or rather, I beg pardon, the Law> rencc Grammar School Committee — for instance, in whose district there are no less than four side schools, namely, Wetherstoneß, Blue Spur, Evans Flat, and Clarks Flat. I do not envy the Secretary of such a district, especially t£ his office be an honorary one. The Waitahuua annual pic-nic has been postponed till Monday, the 2nd March, the weather being altogether too unfavorable for holding it yesterday (Friday), as at first intended.