NGUNGURU NEWS

Northern Advocate, 2 December 1921, Page 6

NGUNGURU NEWS

SUMMER WEATHER

The weather during the past week has been typical of summer —bright sunshine, a few light showers, and the heat of the sun should soon bring the much-needed rain.

The school committee has decided to give the children a picnic on December 16, the day the school closes for the Christmas holidays. The place chosen for the picnic is Kopipi, under the historical Norfolk Pine tree planted some 00 years ago. It is a splendid specimen of a pine, and under its shade the

children will be entertained. There is a fine stretch of hard, clean beach just in front; an ideal spot for races and other sports. If the day is fine it will be a red letter day for the youngsters, and give them something to talk about during their long holiday. THE MAIL SERVICE. These are the days of economy and retrenchment, which we all admit there is good reason for, and if equally distributed we are willing to take our share. But to deprive us of one mail a week is more than justice demands. We sec no plausible reason for it; besides it is a retrograde step and will throw the district back a decade. Tenders are called for the coming year, and it is proposed to reduce the number of our mails from three to two weekly, and we do not like it. If retrenchment is made in the cities, where postal facilities are up-to-date, we would not grumble. Surely settlers in the backblocks have as much right to have their mails carried as they have been for many years as those who live in cities, where every convenience is at hand. To reduce our mail service at the present time is to deprive us of our greatest comfort and convenience. We have not much to look forward to besides hard work and long hours —very little in the shape of amusement —but mail day is a speciality, bringing news of the outside world, local items, letters of a business nature, or from relatives and friends, and then some of us have to go miles to get them, whereas in cities they are delivered at their doors three or four times a day. No wonder people crowd into the cities, where every convenience is to be obtained at little cost, whereas to further encourage people to go on the land the postal authorities propbse to deprive them of one of the essentials of life. GENERAL NOTES. The Lady Eva, with two barges in tow, arrived on Wednesday evening. Mr Larsen returned from his trip to Whangarei on Saturday. Mr H. McKenzie arrived on Saturday .He spent a few days in Tutukaka and left for Whangarei on Tuesday.