DISTRICT NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 17 December 1912, Page 5

DISTRICT NEWS.

(Our Own Correspondent.) MAURICEVILLE W r EST. The last few days have been very sultry, the glass registering 61 degrees iu the shade at 12.15 o'clock on. Friday. Shearing and haymaking are being pushed on with the utmost dispatch. 'lhe hay crops aro not quite up to the usual standard this season. Mr Milne, who is relieving Mr Brash on the dairy company's staff, ) arrived on Friday from the south in ) company with Mrs Milne and family. Mr Brash loaves for hi« new homo I thig week. A team from the local cricket chitV visited Kopuaranga on Saturday and played a practice match, the visiting , team scoring a win. Mr Lett has the thanks of the visitors for providing refreshments, wliich were much appreciated. No little amount of amusement was caused here to-day, when the man who had been engaged to convey the cricketers to Kopuaranga, found big horses to be missing. Setting out hurriedly to make a search of the sur- . rounding district, lie landed at a neighbouring post office and sent mesi sages thick and fast including one to the sergeant of police. However, on returning home after a !hot day's tramp, he found the horses liad squeezed into a back paddock, where it was thought impossible for them | to get, and were quite safe. KAIPARORO. Shearing lias been pushed on apace during the past week, the weather for it being just ideal. Should the weather continue fine, most of the sheds will probably be cut out before i Christmas. Owing to the heavy traffic and to stock travelling, the roads throughout the district are at present unusually | rough. Fortunately motorists and cy- | clists travelling between Eketahuna and Masterton are able to avoid the roughest part of the road, viz., that between Hast well and Kaiparoro, by using either tho Bowen road, which, branches off on the Masterton side of Hastwell, or the Mt Bruce road leading into Kaiparoro. Both of these roads are in good order. Last Tuesday a waggon, driven by Mr Olsen, and laden with pipe? for the Eketahuna waterworks, narrowly escaped being capsized through a water-course giving way. One wheel sank down to a depth of several feet,, and the load tilted to a dangerous.angle. Tho aid of several men with jacks had to be called in to raise the wheel on to the road again. They were able to do this without unloading the waggon, and. after a couple of hours' delay the driver was able to again proceed upon his way. I Quite a number of evening entertainments are to take place in., tho I neighbourhood during next week.' On I Tuesday nio-bt a school concert is to ho held at Rongokokako, on Wednesdav night a school concert at Hastwell, and o" the same night the <••li.ildron attending the Kaiparoro School are to bo given a Xmas Tree in the ball. Arrangements for the latter are well in band, and the event h being overly looked forward to In- the juveniles.