Rongotea

Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 194, 18 August 1936, Page 3

Rongotea

From Our Own Correspondent, Personal.

Sir. Buchanan, postmaster, accompanied by Mrs. and Miss Aisla Buchanan, left for the south on .Monday, where they will spend a vacation. Miss P. Teaz, of Kongotea, is at present on holiday in Christchurch. Sir, Bob Bower has been discharged from’hospital and has returned to his home in Kongotea. Church of England.

There was an unusually large attendance at the Anglican Church card evening on' Friday. Cards were played, tho winners being Mrs. Botcher 1 and Mrs. Eades 2 for tho ladies, tho winners of. the men’s games being Mr. Reid Claasen 1 with Mr. Les Craig 2. These informal gatherings are very much appreciated by the more mature local residents to whom the more strenuous forms of evening entertainment no longer appeal. Twico this week Kongotea roads have proved treacherous to motor vehicles. On Thursday morning an Indian fruiterer from Palmerston North became bogged outside Mr. Romford George’s property and it was not until several hours later that a truck was able to pull it free again. Later a party attending the Te Kawau Union ball had an unenviable experience. After parking their car some distance from the hall, the party proceeded to the ball, ignorant of the fact that one side of the car was resting on the soft, crumbling edge of a drain. When they repaired to the car after the ball it was found that it had slid down into the drain, the wheels on one side being below the road level. All attempts to extricate It made the situation more desperate and when Mr. Les Hogg’s breakdown ear appeared, having pulled another car out of the mud, help was obtained from him but even this was of no avail. Eventually it was decided to leave the car until next day. This the party did, comforted by the fact that tho most intrepid car thief would be foiled if attempts were made to convert it. However, it was pulled out of the drain on Friday morning, very muddy but otherwise unharmed. It would appear that some work could be done in the matter of clearing the grass on the sides of tho roads, and so exposing the drains Which, when overgrown with grass, can prove a trap to the most careful motorist.