KAKARAMEA.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 1 June 1928, Page 6

KAKARAMEA.

(From Our Own Correspondent.) FANCY DRESS BALL. The plain and fancy dress ball organised by a local committee to provide funds for putting the electric light in the hall and schoolhouse took place on Tuesday night, and notwithstanding the very wet night a large crowd from Kakaramea and surrounding districts turned out, and a very pleasant evening was spent. There were numerout fancy dresses, and many of them were original. The prizes were won by the following: Most original man’s eostnTne, Mr. C. Carey (Skeleton); most original lady’s costume, Miss Gibbs, Alton (County Cottage); lady’s prettiest dress, Miss Harvey, Manutabi (Eastern Princess); best costume in hall, Mrs. C. Fowler (Maori Wabine). HUNTING. The Hunt Club meet at Kakaramea. on Saturday next, June 2, and hunt over country north of the railway line. The hoxthorn fences are being trimmed in readiness, and given a fine day there shouold he some good runs, as hares are plentiful. FARM WORK. The local factory is running every second day, but the supply is getting very low. There is a. wonderful growth of grass in the district, the weather still continuing very mild and, unlike further inland, no frosts have been experienced. Top-dressing and chain harrowing are now the order of the day on most of tlie farms, and more farmers every year are realising tlie value of topdresing their pastures and making ensilage instead of ploughing and cropping. Wherever the ground is broken one may he sure of getting a good crop of Californian thistle, hut if the sole of grass is not broken the thistle does not appear .nearly as much. A fair number of farmers in the district are putting their cows away to graze for six or eight weeks, and 1 thus giving their farms a rest, and the rest of the grazing is easily made up in the spring by the abundance of feed through the land being spelled for a time. PIG HUNTING. A party of young men from the district went pig hunting on Monday beyond Hurleyville. They got three pigs, but saw a large number, and no doubt they will be a. menace to the sheep men in the back country in the spring. PERSONAL. Mr. and Mrs. Huston joined the farmers’ train on Monday, and are at present in the Waikato. Mr. and Mrs. J. Armstrong and family, former residents of '-Kakaramea, have been spending a holiday here, being the guests of Mrs. Armstrong’s mother, Sirs. Gilshnan. Thev have now returned to the Waikato. Miss Leversedge, with her sister, have taken up tlieir residence in theschool house, and the former has started her duties as head mistress of the local school.

Messrs. Murray Dowden (first assistant) and S. Gandisb, of the local factory, are away on a motor trip to Hawke’s Bay and the Waikato.