KELVIN CROVE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8843, 7 April 1909, Page 8

KELVIN CROVE.

CQPRE3PONDE&T.) ' " The great"' event- this season has passed and all»<hftv<J expressed them-" ielres delighted'-with ..therKoon. IvoinI pauy's entertainment.-- A,s notice has [ already been made t>f it m your t columns one need not expatiate fur--1 ther about it, suffice Jo say let us '.hope there will many mote, to fo.low. \\'e are getting r'eal autumn weather now but could do' very well if. the supply of wind was curtailed. m "3£iss on a visit to* Wanganut and I hope the little jaunt will improve her health. p The School Committee held their, meeting on Monday evening and the usual routine ot business was dealt with. Satisfactory reports were given bv thV headmaster re the school, garden and other matters. The children are now busily tor their annual concert, of why more anon.' __________

Keeping down Caiifornian .thistles, etc is now a pretty expensive business on some lands., A landowner informs the'Tapanui .Courier that it costs him £5 13s .to cut the thistles on a two-acre section of-bush land. The NimTod's hull along the waterline speaks eloquently of the rough handling she leceived ,in the Antarctic ice-packs. Her timbers are scraped entirely clean'of pamt for abouta foot above the waterlme. Numerous grooves and scratches show up on her planking, which has the appearance of having been smoothed with sandpaper. Below the waterline there is an almost entire absence of pamt, and the hull is quite- free of marinegrowth.