BALLANCE.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1686, 22 June 1904, Page 27

BALLANCE.

(From Our-Own Correspondent.)

With the inclement weather has come our usual attack of influenza, and both young and old are suffering more or less from its effects. The little ones have been attacked with unusual severity and many of them have been confined to bed for days. Nor will there be much abatement in it until we get a few days fine weather

again. A meeting of tho shareholders of Ballance Dairy Company will be held towards the end of the month to consider several resolutions passed at an extraordinary meeting held recently. The Palmerston Winter Show, lo be held on the 21st inst. and two following days, promise to be, as usual, very successful.

Mr Fleming, Inspector of Schools, is to meet the teachers at Mastcrton on Saturday next to discuss the uew syllabus. Owing to the great difficulty of reaching the railway stations in the bad weather teachers in remote parts will be debarred from attending. Masterton is an awk< ward centre for bush teachers. There is a likelihood of the children at the school taking up cottage gardening' in connection with agriculture. This should prove a most suitable subject for a district like this.