AWATUNA EAST.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LI, Issue 9066, 11 April 1906, Page 8

AWATUNA EAST.

(From Our Own Correspondent.) The euchre parties have commenced tT\ , • yy ° J Ung men and maid «« and all other kinds of people from far and wide roll up to these gatherings which are usually we ll attended. Some very smart and close play is o f ten witnessed and.it is very noticeable that the- women can always take a beatdng better than the men. Can it be that in the country our men are not so civilised as our women? .or on the other hand is it a silent testimony to the days when women were accustomed to be beaten by the lords of creation and .when 4he thought it was her duty to submit to the male sex, who were supposed to be. the superior being. In those bygone days euchre was unknown but we read that even without the game folk had sollicking times. In an article a -month, or so ago on the subject of hospital nurses you referred to the invasion of women into the avocations which have hitherto been regarded as an the. domain of man. Now this has been very forcibly impressed upon us lately by the appearance of the woman commercial' traveller. Even since- these country districts have been opened up it cannot, be said that there has bee-n any scarcity of the man C.T., but now we are threatened with the woman in the same lane. It is very hard indeed for those of us who live in the country to withstand the wiles of tho fair sex and ft good few of us wish that really they would go into the nursing profession or anywhere else and be ministering angels, if not in the hospital ward perhaps in their own homes. We back-woodsmen view with not a little pain the advent of women as C.T.s, for was it not one of Scotland's greatest poets who said he could flee from the devijl but he could not resist the lasses?

There has "been quite an exodus from •here, folks going away for the Easter holidays.

I hear that Mr H. R. Fisher, who recently cold out his Awotuna business to Gatanby Btos., has decided to start ia business at Rahotu.

Messrs Gillies and Xalder report that on Monday ait Okaiawa they had a good yarding, the attendance proving that the change of the date of sale from Friday to Monday is > approved and suitable. Bid ding was brisk, and nearly everything was sold at the hammer. Fat cows made up to £5 7s 6d, store cows to 50s. weaners to 10s. turkeys 4s to ss. W. H. and A. McGarry.. Eltham sell pigs, poultry, fruit, and onions on Saturday. On Saturday next W. H. and A. McGarry hold a final clearing sale on behalf of Mr A. W. Blennerhassatt, Eltham. TJie W.C.F.T.A. will sell the privileges in connection with the Egmont winter meeting on Saturday next. The annual meeting of the Eltham branch of the Farmers' Union will be held on Thursday, at 7.30 p.m. . A SCEFiIC CONVERTED. Morgan J. O'Brien, Esq., of Nelson, says : — "Seeing Impey's May Apple so generally advertised and highly recommended,* I was induced to try if it would do what it claimed. lam not a believer in patent medicines generally, but I can testify to the efficacy of this valuable article from my own experience, and the verdict of my* friends. Having tried it for disordered liver and indigestion, I find it a most" valuable medicine, and it also exercises a most beneficial effect on the kidneys. The ingredients of which it is composed should, of themselves, recommend it to public favor." One trial will convince you of its worth. Get a bottle to-day; 2s 6d everywhere. Sharland and Co., Ltd., agents.