RUAHINE.

Feilding Star, Volume I, Issue 290, 13 June 1907, Page 4

RUAHINE.

(Our Own .Correspondents) j One oi - the pleasantest functions ; ever held in Ruahine took place in ! the schoolroom on Monday evening i when a large number of friends met j together to bid farewell to the two Shaw families. The entertainment took the form of a euchre party and closed with a short dance. After supper Mr Guthrie, on behalf of the residents of the district, presented Mr and Mrs W. P. Shaw with a handsome silver teapot and hot water jug, and^ Mrs A. Shaw with an oak silver mounted biscuit barrel and salad bowl. Mr .Guthrie, in making the presentations, referred in eulogistic terms to the work both families had done in the district, and to the high esteem in which they were held by all. Mr W. P. Shaw suitably responded and the ceremony closed with three hearty cheers for the guests and the singing of "Auld Lang Syne." Of late we are having extremely severe frosts, followed by calm, cloudless ddys. Unless exposed to the direct rays of the sun the ground has remained frozen hard for days together, and on shady banks icicles over a foot long can be seen ; nevertheless the days aro so gloriously fine we do not complain of the sharp nights. The Rangiwahia correspondent to the Wanganui Chronicle (sometime correspondent to the Star) seems to love "throwing off" at the Ruahine Hall Committee. Perhaps he will be interested to know that the hall will shortly be built and opened. The j committee should send him a 'press' j ticket of invitation to the opening , and then no doubt as he lives not many j miles distant, he will give them a j small donation ."just to help the thing along, you know." There are a number of residents of this district who would also be very much obliged to him if his notes were not quite so personal. Measles are prevalent in this district and are causing a decrease in the school attendance. We are pleased to hear the trouble among the members of the local football club has been amicably settled. In a recent match the club defeated the Old Boys by 12 to 3. The match was a "willing go," and was lost by the Old Boys on account of the weakness among their backs. In connection with a recent sale of land here the Land Board acted in a peculiar manner. For the sake of illustration we shall say A B and C are neighbours; A has two farms of 200 acres each, B one farm of 600 acres, and C one farm of 200 acres. A sells one of his farms and as his remaining farm has no building site on it, he wishes to buy out B but cannot get the necessary transfer and is compelled to leave the district in search of a freehold farm. B then buys out both A and C and gets the necessary transfer. This action of the Land Board robs the district of two families and returns one bachelor in their places. This aggregation of large areas of land is going on steadily in this district and the time is not far distant when there will be only a few large sheep runs here.