PAHIATUA NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9683, 6 January 1910, Page 6

PAHIATUA NEWS.

From Our Resident Reporter. Wednesday. The Boy Scouts went into camp today for a fortnight. The tents are pitched on Mr John Hughes' property. Pongaroa has now a daily mail service, the mailman leaving Pongaroa at 6 a.m., arriving at Pahiatua 12.15 p.m. On the return journey the mail leaves Pahiatua 2.30 p.m., arriving at Makuri 5.20 p.m. and at Pongaroa 8.30. Pongaroa residents are thus able to get a daily mail from Wellington. During t'he summer months and during the winter months the mail-will be thrive weekly. The dairy farmers of Kuitaki, near Dannevirke, have been thinking of forming a co-operative bacon curing company for some time, and on Monday evening a meeting was held, and it was decided to form a co-operative bacon factory, the authorised capital to be £7,000, and shares to be £1 each, the minimum to be held by any one person to be five, and the maximum fifty. A pretty wedding was solemnised at Kumeroa last week, . when Mr John Mitchell, of Hopelands, was married to Miss Annie McLeod. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Gardner, the Misses Barbara McLeod and Maggie McLeod were bridesmaids, and Mr W. Purdie was best man. The honeymoon is being spent in Auckland. Mr James Pagett, of Scarborough, who has accepted a position with a bacon factory in the Auckland district, is to be entertained in the Scarborough schoolhouse this evening by the suppliers to the creamery, and is to be presented with a solid marble clock, suitably inscribed, by the suppliers. The directors of the Ballance Dairy Company are also making a presentation. At the adjourned summoned meeting of Lodge Mangatainoka, 1.0.0.F.,M.U„ P.G. Bro. W. Boyens,, assisted by P.G. Bro. Godfrey, installed Bro. W. Palmer as N.G., and Bro. W. Taylor as permanent secretary. Ordinary routine business was also transacted. r Mr Malcolm, who has been headmaster of the Scarborough School for the past eight years, ha 3 been appointed headmaster of theMitchelltown school. Mr Malcolm, during his stay here, has always brought the children on splendidly, and several of his pupils have obtained scholarships. During the past few days atrong winds have been experienced here, but last night welcome rain fell, much to the joy of the local dairy farmers. The Pahiatua Borough Council meet on Monday evening next, a the Council Chambers.