HARAPEPE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2510, 11 August 1888, Page 3

HARAPEPE.

Stohms. —We have been getting some vcrj severe weather here lately, a few days back the tops of Pinmgia were white with snow, and last Suiday it blew almost a gale front the hard nearly all day, and was very cold. School Requirements.—ln the Karaimi district, which joins ours on the North, but is better known as tho Kaniwhaniwha, the inhabitants are trying to get a school. Al a public meeting held about a year since, the subscriptions promised, came to a respectable sum, and on the strength of that, and a promise of a piece of land to build the Bcboolhouse on, the Board of Education promised them a school, but a year has passed, and several of the promised sub ecriptions are not forthcoming, as some ol the householders are behaving in a vory narrow-minded sort of way. In fact some ol those who have children to be educated are not as liberal as the single men who have none. It is very probable that unless they stir themselves a little more than they are doing there will be no school, if the retrenching order is to be carried out as the number of children is not large, but is rapidly increasing. Agricultural.—The wheat crop of last season here, did not turn out as good a spec to most as they expected, as owing to the difficulty in getting a thrashing machino, it was very late before it was thrashed and the wsnther was very bad, and the crops not very good, and the price of wheat very low, Some of tho best, (if not the very best) land for wheat-growing in the Waikato is down at the Kaniwhaniwha, deep allmial soil, it was always devoted to wheat and potatoes, when owned by the Maoris before the war.