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Marlborough Express, Volume XLIII, Issue 144, 16 June 1909, Page 7

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[FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.] Tuesday. Arrangements are being made by the Foresters to hold a ball in the Town Hall on July 9. On Thursday next a hockey match will be played at Brownlee Park between Takoreka A and B teams. Yesterday afternoon Mrs Buckman j gave a very enjoyable party for young people, the occasion being her eldest son's twelfth birthday. Clement Wragge!. How we have been "blessing" him lately! He seems to be possessed of some special magnetic force allowed to no other person by which he attracts the bad weather to New Zealand. If such be the case let us petition him to go to Australia and give the parched lands there the benefit of his.presence. Certainly he has nearly drowned us in his recent storm —rivers of water in a pleasant land—which reached us late on Saturday night. All Sunday and Monday, Wragge howled like a dingo, echoing and re-echoing across the narrow gullies, until one thought that ! the master and all the pupils had been let loose from "the national school below, where sinful souls are stewing." Anyhow, to-day the weather broke, fine, and perhaps we shall get another spell of good weather before our friend springs another meteorological disturbance on us.