DISTRICT NEWS

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 30 December 1912, Page 5

DISTRICT NEWS

. PONGA2KM. (Special to Age.) The annual gathering of the sports club was a huge success, from every point of view. The gate revealed l.he 'fact, also self-evident, that rhe attendance of the public constituted a n-ecord. Settlers from all parts of the surrounding district were present. The,display of dainty, fashionable gowns by the ladies,; was <|uitei " a pleasing feature of the gathering. Die ladies were for'once rewarded-' w'th MQueen's" weather, and looked - their \best. • Pongaroa is a long w ; av out of 'touch with the railway, etc, but the ladie-s keep suprisingl ; y well in touch . with the fashion, 'notwithstanding. So that our back block isolation is only partial, after all. Then, again, the music of the Pongaroa brass band of' twenty instrumentalists, under the baton'of Mr F. Rattray, gave quite a towney t'oue to t'he gathering., The effective and incasing 'rtk'Mi'ing of a lengthy and varied programme of music was the topic of .many congratulatory remarks from the country folk, which took on the concrete i'orrn ot' a. collection of £lO ..for tho lustrumdnt' Fund. The eoiftests in several events were very keen, especially in the chopping match, tho iirst, second 1 and thud men finishing with only tho V-arest ma- .. jority of seconds between them. F. . , Cruickshanks, the winner, having won the chop three times at intervals, • eeured the Cup outright, wh'ifh wan •presented to him at the con; ert, Ik-id in the evening, by Mr J./f). Mclntvio. The Town /Hall was n;i eked: (o its vt- , iiiost capacity for the concert, the success of which was, in a great measure, !<lue to the oleyer character impersonations of Mr H. Hall, of Masiprton. The takings at the door show, that the concert, too, was a record one for Pongaroa. The f otat gross takings, from all sources for the. day. ■couM not have been much , short of £l5O.