DISTRICT NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10117, 12 October 1910, Page 5

DISTRICT NEWS.

(From Our Own Correspondents.)

PONCAROA. The return hockey match between the Waione ladies and the Poongaroa Kowhaij, played here on Satur day. resulted i i another win for Kawhias. The score was 3—o. Both teams played well and the game was fast and interesting. The match 'eg gan at 1.30 to enable the Wa ; one I players to reach home in daylight, and it was a -very hot though happy company who sat down to afternoon tea at the end of the match. It was the hottest day we have had since the summer. The goals were scored j by Miss Coe, Miss Souness and Miss Magill. Someone had decorated the goalposts with masses of kowhai, quantities of which can be seen here just now.' The crowds] of trees just laden with yellow blossom with a green background of totara m akes a very fine sight in Pongaroa just now, especially along the river bank. To people who know that Pongaroa i ', the mention of it calls up mud, mud, mud, which of course shows that their knowledge is very limited, 'ihere is not so very much mud now, even in winter, and tjiere will be less

next winter, as the County Council have a big scheme for metalling in hand. '

Pongaroa is the centre of a large and progressive district, is "town" to crowd 3 of people within a radius of twenty miles. Pongaroa is no longer "backblocks" in the accepted sense of that term. It is a live place and boast* two churches, a public library of 250 volumes, Masonic, Foresters, and Town Halls, etc. There are football, ladies' hockey and rifle and amateur dramatic clubs. The climate is excellent; ithaß glorious bush, which is Government Reserve, bush for sawmilling puiposes having been a minus quantity for many years round the township, and has a great future. • Though the "one thing needful" —the hoped for railway—has again been relegated to the "Unauthorised List, the Pongaroa members of the Masterton-Waipukurau Railway League'do not intend to let'it rest there.

A school concert, to swell the funds of an impecunious School Committee, who have, along with other committees been deprived this year of their "9d a head" allowance is to be held in the Town Hall on Friday, 21st inst.