TE KOPURU.

Wairoa Bell, Volume V, Issue 205, 7 July 1893, Page 2

TE KOPURU.

[from our own correspondent] I hear that Capt. McCabe is bringing a small cutter from Auckland to trade up and down the river. The Mascotte Dramatic Club is still moving and will come before the public again in about a month, they intend to give a benefit for the Kopuru wharf, but they are waiting to know the Council’s intentions before they do it. The roads around the township are very ha I for foot passengers, knee deep in mud. A lady got bogged the other night and thought she would have to stop in all night, but after a lot of hard pulling she got clear with the loss of her shoe. Mr Seymour has put up a small store near the Trig and has this week opened it for business ; he is sending away large quantities of gum. The Kauri Company’s store has long had a monopoly here and a little opposition will do good no doubt. Air Allen. Hardwick has taken a housein our settlement and intends bringing his bride to this part. Alessrs Sharp Bros, are putting the house into good order and papering it. The mills are dead and the advent of the Kauri Company has done more harm than good to us. In the old days Messrs Brown Carrqjbell and Co. had these mills running with marked regularity, but since the Kauri Co. took them over they have been so irregular that were it not for the gum all our houses would be empty. The present staff of the Company here numbers about three all told. Mr F. Ross has taken his departure for other fields. He was always a prominent worker in all our sports, and an enthusiast in working up our tug of war team. He was not a toff or perhaps his exit would have been marked in a manner deserving of his merits which were far greater than those of others who have had a good send off. Our school re-opened about a fortnight since, the place having pretty well got ever the measles. No houses seepn to have escaped, and in fact very few individuals. The School Committee have been attending to the playground-and outhouses (the latter especially required attention.) The drains have been cleaned out and the tanks also. The sewing machine bought some time ago for use in the school is to be sold as the present Committee consider it a superfluity in our school. By the departure of Mr R. M. Smith the Committee has lost its chairman, and in the departure of Mr G. Simpson a private member. At the next meeting two members will be chosen and a Chairman appointed.