DISTRICT NEWS

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 12 November 1912, Page 5

DISTRICT NEWS

(From our Correspondent.)

KAIPARORO. j The weather during the past week has been quite unseasonable. Strong north-westerly gales, accompanied by heavy rain, prevailed during the early part of the week. On Saturday the wind changed to the south, and the weather is now both cold and wet, and at present there does not seem to be any prospect of its improving. Dairy farmers are the only ones " who seem to appreciate the continuous wet. Though their'work is rendered much moro unpleasant by it, their spirits are probably buoyed up by the thought of the fat cheques , which are being piled up. Motorists travelling on the Hast-well-Eketahuna road at the present time have considerable difficulty in getting across the rough metal, and several breakdowns have been recorded. The road has been recently graded, and it is now being spread with a thick coating of broken rock. This repairing will probably later on result in a much improved roadway, but those who are obliged to use the . road now would'most likely prefer mud to metal. * I The monthly meetirig of the school ' committee took place last Monday night, there being present—Messrs -iA. Faulkner (chairman), 0. Burton (secretary), J. McCaim, 0. Faulkner and A. Palmer. Owing to pressure of work it wis decided to discontinue the fortnightly euchre tournaments. for the concert, to be ' held at the end of the month, inaaitd t of the school library, were discussed. Mr A. B. Charters paid the annual visit of inspection to the school last Tuesday. The bush at present is gay with the blossoms of rangiora and olenitis, of wliicli plants are flowering unusually freely.

CARTERTON. At a meeting of the directors of the Taratahi Dairy Company on Saturday, Mr F. Pedersen, who has occupied the position of first assistant, yran appointed manager from fourteen applications. A garden party and sale of work in aid of tlio funds of the Dalefield Sunday School has been arranged for Thursday next, to bo held in tho grounds of Mr J. Jones, at Mata.rawa. Cold and unseasonable weather prevails liere, rain falling at frequent intervals on Sunday and Monday. A keen wind was also much in evidence.