PAHIATUA NOTES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3821, 28 May 1891, Page 2

PAHIATUA NOTES.

[By Rambler] The Forty mile Bush was favoared with splendid weather on Queen's Birthday and therefore it was not surprising to find a large number of both sexes present at Pahiatua to witness the first cup match of the season between the Eketahuna and Pahiatua Football Clubs. After an exciting contest Pahiatua proved victorious by eight points to nil. Th«> home team were in decidedly better form, played well together, and seemed favoured with better luck than the visitors, who, although making a plucky stand, were severely handicapped bj playing two men short and the reckless play of some of the forwards who appeared to have very little knowledge of the game. For the winners the most conspicuous players were Frank Perry, Tom Hodgins, McCardle, Broughton and Empton, while for the losing side Walter Dowsett, Ross, Alf Foden, F. Dowsett, Dubois, Priest, and Pelling worked hard. The Pahiatua brass band was in attendanse on the ground, discoursing sweet music, and it is well to here remark that this institution is making really good progress, and were they supplied with better instruments would be a credit to any town. The match throughout was distinguished by two rather peculiar features which do not often go together, viz: real good temper and awfully rough play, several of the men being severely marked. In the evening the White Star Club's annual ball was held and proved a most enjoyabla affair. Everything was well arranged, and the almost unanimous verdict was "The best ball the bush ever had." It is only fair to say that this success was due to the efforts of the indefatigable secretary and his Com" mittee. Business is very brisk just now in Pahiatua, and there is little doubt it is making rapid strides on the road of progress. Building goes on apace, the road improvements are well under weigh, and the residents seem satisfied that there is a future before their town. One little cloud looms on the horizon of prosperity, the development of which is anxiously awaited. The trouble is the unemployed, not that Pahiatua possesses any bona fide unemployed, or at least did not until a professed friend (the Minister of Lands} foisted a very mixed lot on that township a few days ago. Some of them are really deserving cases, but a good many are not, and it is more than probible that the work mapped out for them will disagree with the I majority from some cause or another. Possibly then the Pahiatua people will petition the M.O.L. to take back his little gift, and of course he'll do it.