RUAKAKA NOTES

Northern Advocate, 11 October 1928, Page 8

RUAKAKA NOTES

(From Our Own Correspondent.)' The equinoctial, gales have appar-i ontly passed over and we are having a week of nice fine weather. The days have lengthened considerably and farmers are busy getting the fields ploughed up in readiness for the usual maize and pumpkins. It is a, very pleasant sight to see, on cither side of the road, teams of horses busily breaking up the soil where, in a few weeks time,, the bright green of the young showts will soon be showing. Dairymen are at their busiest and the cream lorries run thrice weekly to the Whangarei an'd Waipu factories, SWAMP DRAINAGE. The Public Wbrks Department has put on about 2}o men to drain the swamp in the -pieinity of One Tree Point Road, neeir Belle Vuc. Later on sections of this drained swamp may be put up for sale. The work is much appreciated by the unemployed especially thoae with young families depending on them, WEDDING BELLS. Rumour has it that- two more weddings are to be celebrated shortly, i and also a “ ceremony. 1 SCHOOL CONCERT. The annual school concert took place last Wednesday, and was a great success. It was! the first for several years', in this where Uhe programme 'was carried out eu*

tirely by the scholars, and was a credit to the teacher, Miss McKenzie, and to the accompanist Miss Morgan. There was a fairly good attendance and the proceeds, I believe, are to finance the school picnic later on. The programme is as follows, Masters Gordon, Prescott and Frank Pierce undertaking the duties of chairmen and Masters of Ceremonies: — Opening chorus, the children; recitation, Irene Pierce; song, Golden Vanity, the children; dialogue, Kathleen Prescott anl Mona Plaine; song, Three Travellers, the children; recitation. F.sme Harvey; drill, the boys; quartette, Pheobe Dore, Ivy Salle, Irene Pierce and Edna Cosgrave; song, Bonnie Scotland, .junior children; recitation, Cecil Pierce; drill, the. girls; song, .Tack Frcst, ji.nior scholars; dialogue, Stanley Cosgrave and Bruce Alison; skit, Ivy Salle, Edna Latimer and Val Harvey; recitation, Val Harvey; song, Edna Cosgrave and chorus; nursery rhymes in chorus; “Little Miss (Muffet” (Mona Plaine); “Diddle Dumpling’’ ■ (Bruce Alison); “Little Boy Blue,” (Victor Viscoe); “Humpty Dumpty” (Victor Untuuovich); “Georgic Porgie” (Stanley Cosgrave); “Little 80-Peep” (Mona Plaine); “Little Jack Horner” (Cecil Pierce); “Jack -and Jill” (Stanley Cosgrave and Esnie Harvey); “Where arc you going?” (Edna Cosgrave and Bruce Alison).'