WAIPIATA.

Otago Witness, Issue 3292, 18 April 1917, Page 23

WAIPIATA.

April 1G. —The weather sti.ll continues good, with occasional showers of rain, which have had a beneficial effect on the surrounding country. The district is losing its parched appearance, and becoming quite green again, and if the good weather continues there is every prospect of some winter feed for the stock. Church Affairs. —On Sunday morning a Presbyterian Sunday School was opened for the first time in the history of Whip iota. For a number of years the children have attended the Anglican Sunday School, but the Presbyterians decided to start one of their own," with the above successful result. On Sunday evening a harvest thanksgiving service was held in the Waipiata Presbyterian Church. The interior of the building was nicely decorated with flowers, fruit, vegetables, and grain (which is to bo sent to the Presbyterian Orphanage Dunedin). An appropriate sermon was preached by the 11 av. T. G. Butler to a- full church. General—Easter holidays arc now over, and everything is quiet again. An aggregate of 80 hares left the district last week, so that those who had come for the Easter sport did not go away empty handed, and had evidently had a good time with the gun.