HURLEYVILLE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LVII, Issue LVIII, 10 May 1910, Page 6

HURLEYVILLE.

(From Our Own Co-respondent. )

A special meeting of the Hall Committee was held on Saturday night, Mr Stuart Macdonald presiding. It was resolved to at once call for tenders to have the hall repainted, and on the motion of Mr Hurley it was agreed *o hold a concert on the 26th inst., in aid of the cost. The Chairman's offer to have the kerbing in front of the hall fixed on the committee providing the material was accepted with thanks. Mr Overbye's offer of a kerosene stove for the kail on condition that the committee provide oil for heading same for the coming winter was also accepted with thanks.

Mr Walter Taylor has sold his Hurleyville property to a Mr Candy who is to take immediate possession.

The milking season is now nearing a close and it will have been a record one for Hurley ville. The season has been one of the mildest and most favorable "within living memory." The late summer month was perhaps too mild and warm and favorable to the propagation ©f parasite plagues^ and if it were not for the two or ' three days of the cold snap' we experienced in the beginning of April our turnip crops would have almost been a complete failure, as it was they recovered wonderfully. The mangold crops are magnificent, being blight proof, and the kale and maize crops (especially the former) stood the farmers in good need. Altogether the outlook for the winter for most provident farmers is excellent.

I hear that the financial result of the late school concert exceeded expectations and the committee have now decided to purchase a tennis, instead of the croquet, set. It will be a more energetic and spirited exercise for the children and some of the younger adults may be tempted to have a "friendly go" on a Saturday afternoon — with Mr Baillie's kind permission.