KAPUNI.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXV, Issue LXV, 17 December 1913, Page 5

KAPUNI.

[MOM OUB OWN COBREBFOHDEHT.]

'Another very fine residence has been •erected upon the Skeet road, Kapuni, «for Mr Lovell: Owing -to the fact that the majority of the farms are held Tinder the leasehold system, very few • good residences have been erected in -this district, and very'little effort has /"been made to make beautiful homes by plantations, orchards, lawns, etc. Therefore it is a pleasure to record i;hat'another has been added to the few : beautiful residences of Kapuni. The results of the Standard VI proficiency examination, just to handj are as follow: Presented, 7; proficiency certificates, 6; competency, 1. Two of these pupils were Standard V pupils, one' havi»g been promoted to Standard 'VI in OctobeE. The following 'is a list of the successful pupils: John CDowd, Stanley Harrison, Irene Dawson, Lilian Hughes, Mary Stevenson, TElsie Bauchop, Edward Scott, the latter securing a competency certificate. The milk supply at the local factories is remaining normal. The tests ar» beginning to mouat upward, and a glance at the faces of suppliers on the 10th, 20th, and at the end of ■tke month will, inform one as to the state of the test barometer. i Tjie present stormy weather is sadly interfering with putting in crops for autumn feeding^ stilly it? has its good points, iii that itapuni has seldom seen »uch a flush of grass* as there is at present, and indications point to a long aad successful season as far as milk 4s concerned. The person that wears i a dubious expression is the beekeeper. This weather ahsolutely prevents the gathering of honey, and owing to there being a; latge;number of; : yonng bees .'■■ ■■tor ie«dvshet prtosjHectsofc a of honey this -will be a:* very-poor, one if there Is not a change to warm sunny ;weather before Christmas. Kapuni sent its quota down to Wel-r lingtonjto see pur cheese loaded. One gentleman 'stepped into the breach when #h& *<Maungairfw was unable to get away=-from Wellington- owing ■-■• to the stokers leaving their, posts. He speaks of his trip to Sydney and back In the stokehold of the Mauhganui as an experience that he will never .forget, and also mentions-that he received the greatest attention from the officers and •crew of his ship.