DISTRICT NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10221, 24 April 1911, Page 5

DISTRICT NEWS.

i From Our Own Correspondents.)

PAHIATUA.

At a meeting of the outgoing committee of the Pahiatua District High School, held on Friday evening, the chairman (Mr J. D. Wilson) announced that the finances of the school were in a highly satisfactory condition, there being a credit balance of over £BO. This is by far the most substantial sum any committee of th • school has ever liad to its credit. The annual meeting of householders to be he'd on Monday evening for the election of the committee for the ensuing year, promises to be a large one. Interest in school matters has somewhat brightened up of late, and the healthy state of the finances has tempted quite a number of well-known citizens to allow themselves to >be nominated for the v acant positions on the committee.

Pahiatua is in a state bordering almost on excitement, the forthcoming Mayoral election being responsible for the small disturbance. And this is how it came about. The sitting Mayor (Mr W. W. McCardle), never for a moment dreaming of opposition, departed Wairarapa-wards for liis annual deer-stalking expedition. And during the time that his genial Worship was tracking the wily quadruped, an energetic young gentleman, in the person of Mr Arnold Weston, secretary of the local Reform League, was bestowing his smiles and blandishments upon the electors, and enfranchising all who were qualified to register a vote on Wednesday next. So cueoessful were Mr Weston's efforts (I atn unable to chronicle how Mr McCardle fared) that he speedily announced himself as a candidate for the Mayoral chair. To say that this came as a surprise to the public is only a very mild way of putting it. Instantly the friends of Mr McCardle got to work, and by wireless telegraphy, or some such means of rapid communication, succeeded in recalling Mr McCardle from the haunts of the antlered monarch. Both candidates are now working.in deadly earnest, Mr McCardle making up for lost time, and no effort is being spared on either side to secure a victory.

The annual general meeting of the Pahiatua Central Branch of the New Zealand Farmers' Union will be held on Tuesday next.