WOITON.

Otago Witness, Issue 1650, 7 July 1883, Page 13

WOITON.

fFBOM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT. ) July 3 The Wkathrb.— We have had some pretty sharp ♦««t« latnlv es' eoially in the Valley, and the mornn°g 8 anSni^are my cold No snow has fallen 1£ vet this year ; it does not visit us very often, i Looai/ INDOBTRT.-The dairy factory is rising steadily and the walla will very aoon be finished. His a twe•koraved scone building, and will be a conspicuous object when completed, which 13 expected to be early in September. Schooii Matkrs.— The forward progress of our school has in no measure abated sinco my last. The number on the roll is now about ISO, and I think an additional teacher will soon be required if the p eeent late ot progress continues. A concert was given in the Bchoulhouee on the 19th June to one of the largest audiences ever Been in the di.trict. No charge was m&d»loi admission, but a collection was taken up, and 1 think it w»s owing to this that the proceeds, which are to be'devoted tj.some bchuol-grouud improvements in the shape ot gymnastic apparatus, were wot to large as might hive been expected from so numerous fen audience. Rbmoious.— A successor to the Rev. Mr Cameron ha* not yet been got, but it is expected that m the course ot the bummer a suitaole minister will be obtaiued for this wide and important district. A change has lecently been made in our hours of bervice. We have once once a month an evening service instead of a inoruing oue so that the Ngapara people may have an additional morning service one« a month in addition to their former monthly evening one. Local Govbrnuknt. -The fcoad Board and County Council are still uoui* useful work, but ratepayers are now beginning to sea plainly that one of the bodies could with a little alteration do all the work at much leas expense, either by developing the Road Board a little or by increasing the number of members of the Council by giviug each iload Board subdivision a reptesenta.ive in it. The Koad Board elections under the new Act took place la^t week. Considerable interest was manifested m suine of the subdivision?, and most of the voters were biought to the poll, with the "result that mobt of the old members were lefc out in the cold. lam a9suied that even the somewhat doubtful expedient of plut&ping was resorted to to secure the return of one member. Some o; the delects ot the Local Elections Act were clearly brought out -for instance, any elector who had failed -co pay his rates at the time of the election was deterred from voting, while others, who had never £ aid rates at all, were permitted to vote. Whai'6 in a Name ?-I see by the papers that the Education Board has lefused to graut a request made -by the School Committee that, tt.e name of our school • district should be altered. 1 believe both teachers and .^School Committee hava desired this Jorjeara. Waiarekaisnot any particular place, <>ut the name of an "extensive district, containing several Bchools, and as it is not a post township, correspondonce has frequently gone astray. It is felt here that the uuani"mous request ot a hard-working committee to change it to Weston, which ia the po^t town, and practically the school district, might have been granted, aud not settled in the " dog-iu-the-maoger " style in which 'eartain of the members looked at it.