PARENGARENGA

Northern Advocate, 6 February 1934, Page 2

PARENGARENGA

DISTRICT ACTIVITIES. PASTURES GOOD, BUT DRY. Lari woe I: -Mr Lon Bo ore mustered his North Capo run lor the annual dipping, and whilst the tiooh was in, *Jiore* his lambs and soul a. consignment. of fat wethers to tho Auckland market. Although there has been an absence of rain for the past, six weeks, feed is still fairly plentiful though drv.

Although the holidays are well over, tourists continue to arrive at Pandora and Kapowaitua camps. The road to Pandora has boon -trimmed up (luring ll)o past few weeks, and is again negotiable by motor. All far northern roads are now in very good order. Mrs Chapman, of the Paua, is confined to bod in Taranaki with an attack of bronchitis and will not bo able to return home for some time.

There was a large gathering of Maoris, at Te Kao on January 25, the occasion being the celebration of tho Morohtt -(Ratana) Christmas.

During the past two months the majority of the Maoris at Te Hapua and adjacent settlements have been engaged gum-digging at Small, Te Kao, Waikanae and Tom Bowling’s Bay, and a. considerable quantity of gum, mostly chip, has been shipped by local traders to Auckland, Airs William Subritzky, of To I!:ipan, died there on Tuesday night. The deceased, who had been an invalid for many years, knives a large family mostly grown up.

The other week at Parenga an “Advocate” representative strolled into Captain Dorling’s cabin on the scow Waka and was surprised to receive ocular demonstration that, the captain was not only a. seaman but also an amateur artist, for on the stocks were two oil colours, one of the good old ship, tho Clansman, which for upwards of half a century visited the ports along the eastern coast, and the other of the famous clipper ship, Cutty Bark, which called to mind the days when that world famous vessel breasted the easterly gales in the “roaring forties” and also put up record runs to various ports in the Seven Seas. Captain Dorling’s paintings are complete in every detail and that of the Clansman will bring" back happy moments to many Northlanders, who have made voyages on the famous old ship in the days when Northland was correctly designated “The Roadless North.”