PURUA.

Northern Advocate, 7 May 1914, Page 5

PURUA.

(Own Correspondent.)

The first three days of May brought forcibly before r.s what we may expect to have in the s'.iape of weather this coming winter. Let us hope that ouv stock may survive if we succumb. There is a quietness throughout the district very soothing to the nerves of the harassed setter, owing to the shooting;season being a close one. In open seasons individuals, and especially members of the Puma Minna! Protection A"sso v cii tion, are kept on -i-he alert to protect their own and the'r neighbours' property from unlicensed trespassers, so thut a rest is as wel- * come to man as tj pheasants.

A case of imported pheasants has been forwarded to our riding member to be liberated In the district. It is thoughtful and kindly of the society, and will doubtle.",? be properly appreciated by the haw :s. .Why cannot the setlers and the society learn to appreciate the immense loss entailed annually through not organising a systematic crusade against the hawk. Perhaps a heavy fine.for allowing a hawk to.fly over one's property and killing his neighbour's fowls might have a salutary effect.

The annual meeting of househoders wr.s.held on the 4th inst., when the following gentlemen were elected as the school comittee:—Messrs G. Albari King, V. A. Abraham, E. F. Abraham, J. H. Thompson, and W. F. Drake. At the subsequent meeting of the committee the first-named gentleman was elected chairman.