OWAKA.

Clutha Leader, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 9, 4 August 1911, Page 3

OWAKA.

(From Our Own Correspondent.) After a few days of drizzle we have tin; frosty nights and sunny days with u* again! Tuesday will be the first oi spring and already the days are visibly lengthening, and spring flowers beginning to show forth once more telling us ehat winter will soon be out. However, it will be some little time before our roads dry up even with good weather. The attendance at school is at present not large owing to the prevalence ot mumps—which are not peculiar to the children alone-and winter colds. lam sorrv also to state that our head teacher, Mr Chesney, is not in the best of health and has been granted a month's leave of absence. We earnestly trust that after a rest_ change, he will be able to ta<e up his duties with his old zealousness. A meeting was held in the Presbyterian Church on Thursday evening to consider the advisability of starting the Band of Hope meetings. Quite a krge number assembled and a most hearty and enthusiastic meeting followed. Rev. F. Tylee occupied the ohair and called on Mr Parry (Baptist Missionary) to open with prayer. A committee was formed and it wag proposed to hold the first meeting on August 11th in the Oddfellows' Hall if that building is available on that night. For the first meeting the charge will be adults 3d, children free. The members of committee are Messrs Osborne, Tylee (president), Parry (secretary), V. Osborne, Mesdames Tylee, and McNutt, and Miss Dutton. Three members were selected to arrange a. programme for the 11th, and to judge by the interest already shown, we might expect a succession of interesting and enjoyable meetings in the months to come. ...