Papatawa

Manawatu Times, Volume LVI, Issue 7067, 28 January 1933, Page 11

Papatawa

(From. Our Own Correspondent.)

Changeable conditions in the weather have prevailed in this district during the month and consequently some of the harvesting has not yet been completed. There are quite a few good crops of oats in stook, but with tlio present fine weather these will soon be in. Last Sunday we had a torrential downpour in the afternoon. This Tain has done a lot of good and tho root crops are looking very well in consoquence. There arc numbers of white butterflies about, but so far they do not seem to be doing a great deal of damage. Last Monday the Southern Cross, piloted by Sir Charles Kingsford Smith, passed through the Mangatua Valley on its way to Wanganui. It seemed to fly along the sides of the Ruahines, and a very-good view of it was obtained by those who were fortunate enough to bo outside at the time. It was flying much lower than other planes fly when taking this route. The chicken pox epidemic seems to have died down after having visited

I almost every homo in the district. Now we hear that there are several cases of whooping cough about, and we are hoping that it will not prove as contagious in this district as the chicken pox was. There is talk of a haymakers’ dance to be held in the community hall after all the harvesting is finished. Miss D. Hutchinson and Master .R. Hutchinson, who have been staying with their sister, Mrs. Waugh, atTangimoana beach, returned home yesterday. Miss A. Carston, who has been staying at Tawadale, as a guest of Mr. and Mrs. L. Hutchinson, returned to her homo in Dannevirke to-day.

Miss Ross, lecturer at the New'Plymouth Hospital, and who has been staying at Rosedale, left for New Plymouth to-day.

Mrs. E. Bradley and Miss J. Bradley have gone to Napier for a short holiday. We are pleased to hear that Mrs. J. Mabey, who has been an inmate of Dannevirke hospital for some weeks, is now very much improved and hopes to be home again very shortly. Miss Kinane, who has also been in the Dannevirko hospital for somo weeks, is now much better and has been moved from the ward to tho verandah, so we hope it will not bo long •before she is back with us again.