COUNTRY CORRESPONDENCE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 9185, Issue 9185, 8 April 1910, Page 5

COUNTRY CORRESPONDENCE.

(From Our Own Correspondents.) GLEN OROUA. The Social Club, which was such a success last winter, is again being put under way. A largo number of the eettlcrs turned up at the initial meeting, and a strong and energetic committee was elected to conduct the club's business. The following officials elected': —Messrs Wm. Anion, president; 11. Russell, eecretary; R. Rose, treasurer. At tho commitec meeting, held on Thursday evening, a large amount of business was got through. It was decided to hold the first dance on Wednesday evening, 13th hist. Messrs McKenzic and Martin were engaged to supply tho music. Tho Club has decided to engage tho hall up to tho end of August for onc< night— Wednesday—each week. As it is proposed to hold the dances only once a fortnight this leaves a Wednesday evening each fortnight open for games, music, lectures and debates. This is tho portion of the programme which the committee will find it most difficult to arrange successfully. . In Palmerston and Feilding. I am pleased to notice, that debating clubs are being formed. Is there any good reason why this means of cultivating the intellectual side should, not be adopted in Glen Oroua? Whilst dancing is an enjoyable- way of spending an occasional winter evening yet no one can- declare that it is very intellectual, and unless we make some appeal to the mental faculties there is the danger of intellectual degeneration overtaking us. Those of us who have tried the experiment can honestly declare that intellectual pleasures are greater than mere physical ones. Mr Cameron, the manager of the Glen Oroua Dairy Co., is now able to be out of bod. It Will be some little time yet ere he is able to start work, his illness having been a very severe one. The Powclka scare has reached Glen Oroua. Our blacksmith discovered the other morning that someone had been in his smithy during the night, and we unanimously came to- the conclusion that it was our enterprising colonist Powelka, who had been in trying to strike the iron while it was hot. One settler proposed to start a local Hunt Club, to be called the Powolka Hunt Club, in honour of this striking example of private enterprise.