WHATA WHATA.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 814, 4 September 1877, Page 3

WHATA WHATA.

Sept 3rd. Oar School Committee .will have to bestir themselves this time!* They have received a notice to the effect that the shed at present used as a school'house will be required at the expiration of two months, for other purposes. This might have been expected, as no rent whate/er has been paid for the use of it ; yet the school committee have so far, taken no practical step* towards having eiti-er a school -house or a teacher's residence erected. This iB more inexplicable when it is well known that one day's canvassing among ;the ; aethers wonld raise sufficient funds to erect a building quite large enough for present requirements. However a special meeeing of tbe School Committee was held on Saturday, no doubt to discuss the situation. The Postal service for Whutawhata has been altered, and not altogether for the better. Instead of having three mails arriving on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, we shall, according to the Postal Notice have a mail arriving on Mondays ( and Thursdays, leaving the following days. This will render the Saturday's mail at present carried by the settlers quite unnecessary, but in any base three mails a week is the least we Bhould have, unless we are to remain behind other Waikato settlements. Our township is looking very pretty just now. The peßch trees, for which Whatawhata is famous, are all in bloom. Ibe grass is freeh and green, and not before iti is needed, for the past winter, whoever it may have been in other parts, has been a bard one on the Waipa, the unusual number of frosts telling on all vegetation. It musjb, however, improve the land under cultivation.. Jfc has beon said, and with truth, that until w« get the Southern frosts,.. we need not expect to have the Southern 1 grain crop. * The Social Improvement Sociev Ins tflfl} tfywte 0 / ft* <J WOT M»tiv»

-tlWJSfar,. &c,) proving rutbier too dry for for the members, some of wlibm "prefer" wetting it occasionally ; still it is a pity, as! pleasant evenings might be spent in mutua) improvement which would plher*; wise be pnSaed at the public hoiiie.— Or/B C^BRBSPONDBNT. 1 ■' ■■■ ■• ■ i •■■'-■•■_ ■■••: ■- •■- •-■-•■ ■ ■■ ■■ ■■■: ■: :. .