KIHIKIHI.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 3131, 9 August 1892, Page 3

KIHIKIHI.

0 School' —'The Kihikih School Committee recently-elected con sists of Messrs Dinneen (chairman) Mainwaring, Moncrieff, Maunder, Clark, Kennedy and Herdeon. The meeting: are to be held on the Wednesday befon the full mnon in each month, at 7 p.m., in the old school-house. The usuai mouthly meeting was held on Wednesdaj evening last. The business consisted principally of reviewing the price lists received from the different Auckland book-sellers. It was decided to accept the offer of Messrs Upton and Co. for the supply of school stationery. Certain bills being passed for payment concluded the meeting. The Library.—l believe a move is to be made to reinstate our library. A meeting of those interested was held the other evening. A clearing-out sale of periodicals and old papers realised a small sum, which will go towards paying off the library debt, which has been standing over for want of funds. I wish our library every success, and hope to see one and all come forward with their subscriptions. Rkwi.—Rewi, whom I wrote about a few weeks ago, seems no better. Finding his house in Kihikihi not quiet and isolated enough, he has removed to a house which Mr Doyle lately built for him a few miles out of Kihikihi, on the roa'l to Otorohanga. Milk Factory.—Our settlers arc very attentive at the sales just now buying up all the springing cows they can get to enable them to be ready with a supply of milk by the Ist September, that being the date on which the factory, now erected, commences operations. Our Jlakrikins.— There is one little tiling I should like to draw attention to, and that is the larrikin element here. It is perceptibly growing, aud it would be •yvell to nip it in the bud. Weather and Roacs.—The last two or three frosts have buen very keen here. No doubt the grass is being kept hack in eonssquence, and feed is scarce just at present. —The roads in and around the township are in excellent order for this time of the year, aud are even better than thuy were in summer, there being