NGAHERE.

Greymouth Evening Star, 15 January 1909, Page 1

NGAHERE.

PI |;|.IC MIiMTIXCS UK I*ICNU*. I Mr \V. Harrow forwards j n-|)oit of :i public meeting held, on Mon- j day evening l« mnMdor the Vproposcd K-hool pkuic an<l I'ltTt a (OimdilUH! to ' cany ii out : j Tnerc weie 16 men present. .Mr Vial j • in Hi,! chair. A vol*- was takea in the ! ' room .1.- to where the picnic sliimld he ; : held, viz.. Lake Mahinapua or Uokitika, which icMilted in eight- lor Uokitika and ' ] eight for the Lake. The t.'hiiinnan gave I a t.i.-tin- vote for tho Lake.

Sl'lt&EQl'EN! I'RUCEEDINC.S. (in Tuesday .some married women asked ~ Uiv to take a ballot pa|»er round for ] them* to .ill tin- married women in Nga- i here, asking tiioin l« record a vote as to j where thoy would like their children to have their' picnic, with the following reMilt: F<.r Uokilika 25. representing 42 M h..0l children; for the Lake Hi repreMmting three school children. V fresh j meeting was then called for Wednesday | night, when a large number turned up to hear iho»rcsulu. .Mr Vial again took the j , hair The minute* o) the last meeting j were read. , , It wa.> proposed l»v Mr Wilmot thai the m i„utes he accepted'a. read. Mr Nvberg here asked to he allowed to move ail amendment that a |K>rtion of the | la--t minutes .-land over until after this j

'Hi.- Chairman : 'You are out W - order, Mr Nvherg." , . Mr 'Nyherg: "1 am in older, Mr ( hairMr T. Leitch here tried to explain mat 1,.,-s - ,\ni' that if the previous minutes were ae.eptcd lilts meeting was not re <,uirocl. The (Chairman : "1 have received im notice of motion." .. \|, SM.-I- . "Y-M vi" "at of order. M, lUriow "'I h' ie is no nol c ' ,U The',"hai : -You are noL the Mayor of Nindwre, Mr L'iimnv. I leave Hie ihair! This is only nil electioneering "'Mr"Vial left the chair and wen! to the back of the schoolroom, saying that he was no crawler. A vote of the room was ,;,],,.„ f<„ Mr Vial to re-consider ami take the . hair a-ain, which was earned. Mr Vial returned to t hair, and said that Me>-i- Nvberg and Lei tell were correct -in the way they had put the ainendThe Chairman here explained that a ■ M.titioll had l.een wilt round to the mar ' idbii r,^rfx O L"tC joyed .himself at the Lake last war, and exnlamed what a e ri ,id i.lice it was for voutig people, ami wished he was a single man going there. Mr I'.arrow : "That known or unknown ~., on '.Mi t'iiairman, was my sou. who w ,.nt round at the re *l of some ol the ~:,,ent,. and you should know that boy by

""m,- Rons: "Is lhi.= a school picnic or a ~- >-!i. picnic?" . . „ The Chairman: "A school picnic. _ Mr Campbell: "If it is a school W™> < lol'the mothers of the children decide where thev would like the picnic to l>< held." , -, The Chairman: "Every subw riiwr r ; , vote here to-night." \ vote was then taken. Tl„. result was: Lake Mahin.ipua 32, Hokitika 25, Arahura 1. McMcnamin s Paddock 0.