PAHIATUA NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9671, 20 December 1909, Page 6

PAHIATUA NEWS.

\From Oar Resident Reporter!. Saturday. The tennis courts are now in splen* ■did and great interest is being taken in the annual tennis i tournament* which will commence on \ 3New Year's Day. The bowling green, which adjoins the tennis «ourts, As likewise in tip-top condition, and some very close and in'teresting matches have bee*i played this season, a competition now in progress being one for the (President's trophy., The members of both the ' above Clubs are indeed fcrtunate in having such a splendid caretaker as Iflr Mcßrvitney.

At the present time, which is the "height of the dairying industry, somewhere about US boxes of butter, we being manufactured daily at the, Dairy Company's butter; factories at Konint a.id Baliance.; 'Over eighty boxes of this amount is made at the Konini branch. Notwithstanding that, the Rexdale ctoeese factory at Mangamaire has taken some of the suppliers from Konini, the supply of milk this year foas more than equalled that of the .corresponding period to date of last year. This will serve 10 »>w that enormous strides have been made in the dairying industry in and abont Konini. At Mangatainoka the Hawke's Bay Dairy Company are turning out over 8U boxes of butter da%. Cricket inj Pahiatua is practically ! dead, as far as practice matchts are concerned. It is strange that a town the size of Pahiatua cannot iniuse more interest in the matter of recreation. Sports also seem a thing of the past and our local "sports," if there are any, would do well to take a lesson from the Nourishing Jittle Athletic Club at Mangatainoka. A very large quantity <of wool is coming m daily froran the back country to the Pahiatua railway station. The. local shopkeeeprs are very bupy preparing tiheir jpremises for the Christmas season, and the last Jew evenings the town has presented quite a busy appearance. A large number <otf people bent on holiday making, ileft Pahiatua yesterday acid to-day. •Miss F. Stormont, uf the Pahiatua District High School, was successful in the handwork examination Jield in Masterton recently.