BUNNYTHORPE

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1685, 15 June 1904, Page 30

BUNNYTHORPE

- (From Our Own Correspondent.) In consequence of the limited area of - , the present playground at our State school the committee has decided to purchase an acrq of land from Mr L. I<arsen. This -will not only give the much-needed addition to the playground ■ri 'but will also provide more room for the cottage gardening which is now quite an V institution at the school. It appears! the ■School Committee discovered there was a school reserve of 11 acres in the district . aiid: the Wanganui Board of Education : -has granted the committee permission s : to let the same and to receive the rent, iThis therefore enables the committee to ‘Purchase more land for the school : ground. •

Local cricketers are taking time by the forelook by getting contributions towards

paying for the putting of their ground In proper trim for the next cricketing season; The - subscription list is being Well filled up and is at Mr W. E. Gascoigne’s store for the receipt of subscriptions.

Our worthy ‘ postmaster, Mr Richardson, having made considerable improvements to his private residence intends making further • alterations to the post office department so as to facilitate the better delivery of postal matter. , We are now getting samples of weather. Tuesday was a magnificent day, warm and genial sunshine. Friday was dull, cold, and windy. Nevertheless crops are looking well, and there is a very fair amount of grass for this season of the year. In anticipation of the. dried milk industry being started here some farmers are disposing of their pigs', as by and bye they will have no milk to feed them on. In the Licensing Court at Palmerston North recently, a gentleman of the long robe is reported to have alluded to Bunnythorpe as “a one-horse apology for a village.” Naturally enough we do not feel complimented. Probably it was said in a spirit of retaliation, for a petition was once presented to Government by a worthy triumvirate of settlers here endeavouring to get a railway liue from Ashhurst to Bunnythorpe, instead of as they put it to “the township of Palmerston North.”