WHAREROA.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 6 August 1924, Page 10

WHAREROA.

(From Our Own /Correspondent.) The footballers’ ball held on the 25th ult. was a signal success, visitors coming from far and near to attend this popular fixture. McDonald’s orchestra provided the music, and all “went merry as- a marriage hell.” The cows are coming in fast now, and the local factory has made special arrangements to handle the season’s output. A new concrete whey-tank stand has been installed, and cheese is being lfianufacturetf*’ as from the Ist inst. The local factory is now one of the most complete as regards equipment of any in the district.

Great interest is being taken locally in the forthcoming final of the Wednesday football competitions, between our local fifteen and the Hawera team. Owing to the defection of Ketemarae, the "iVliareroa team hag now to play off with the leaders, and the match is to be played, I understand, at Hawera on the 13th inst. There is some good material among the local representatives. but combination is sadly needed.

I notice your esteemed contributor “Fifty-one” returns to the charge as to the alleged incorrectness of the name “Maqawapon.” At the risk of wearying your readers, 1 advance as a geographical fact that only a tributary of the Alanawapou is entitled to the name Ingahape, oj; Kingahape. Just above the intersection of the railway line the main stream forks, the eastern branch being known as the Ingahape, and the western as the Otoia. From the confluence to the sea the river is styled oil survey and county maps “Alanawapou.” It may be recalled that .1 made no direct assertion myself, hut merely quoted an authority. I would suggest that the Rev. Air. T. G. Hammond, now living in retirement in tho Waikato, he appealed to to decide the point, as J cannot suggest any living authority higher than he. AVhat your interesting contributor might well have challenged was my statement as to the location of Ohangai, which I have now reason to believe was situated some two miles to the north-east of the site indicated by me before, and on the eastern hank of the Tongahoe, on Mr. Afunro’s farm. This is the spot whence the illustrious Bishop Selwyn was ordered away from by the sullen natives about 1808. Here also in 1808 came Air. Percy Smith, already quoted in your columns. Air Smith describes the remarkable beauty of the scene as viewed from tho karaka grove on the site of the pa, with the sinuous stretches of the Tongahoe below and the rising hills of the forest clad ranges behind. “It was,” says Air. Smith, “the finest type of a. native settlement that I have ever beheld.”