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Otautau Standard and Wallace County Chronicle, Volume I, Issue 26, 24 October 1905, Page 2

). The gathering m the Soot's Gap Publio ' Hall on Friday night, balled to mind the. first gathering of the kind m the district.in the then newly erected sohoolhouse, m January, 1887. Great changes have taken place sinoe then. ' Some of the most aotive. workers for the good of the dis'rigf at that time, have crossed fhe Great Divide, ampugst them the late Mr Dunoin Stewart, Mr Mark Noble, and Mr William Bates. Others, who were either on. the school committee, or on son^e other jooal body, and who haye since, removed to new districts, are Messrs H. M<>_let^, R. • Troup. 0. Oarnie, G* G. Buttolpfe, and James Powell ; while still true to the district m which* they have lived, are . !*vf;es»srs T. Kennedy, Jv P!ok8on t P. Ramsay, .^.-Harper, J. 0.-Fprdej aud. < M^Mcl'Y6r. -Many'of- those who weregjurpUg,- at t.he-wafe_3^_at that time, ' are 'now residents •■ bf the disteict7^ftn**J-qJmB-\ and families oitheir own. |