TE KARAKA NOTES.
We were fortunate on Monday last m getting a fine day for the Axemen's Carnival. The shoAvery: Aveather Ayhieli lias been, the order recently* broke long enough for the ground to dry sufficiently to ■ afford good footing. There were- gbod entries for all the events, and the feature of the day Avas' the superb axemanship of S. ' Johnston,... .who won' tho Karaka Handicap (standing ohop, 18in.log), with several seconds to spare, from, scratch. The limit men' were well into the second scarf before the scratch man got away, but he Avon easily, though conceding. &s much as 26 seconds to the second man, Avho-in ordinary company \vbuld be coh-< sidered a, first-class 'axeman. The M'aideni Chop (underhand) was also AVon m good style by j the scratch man, W. Blbwes. In the double-handed saAving the fown shoAvn by Berkham brothers, who are youths of 16 or 1,7 years of age, came as a great surprise, and. their win Avas popular. Material is already coming to hand for the nev/ suspension bridge 'which is being built at -Waihuka over the Waikohu river. During the last month Mrs Delaney has opened a fruit and candy store, and Mr Culpitt has started m business on his own as a, saddler and harness maker. The number of people • travelling through here has been unusually large. On several occasions lately every bed m the hotel has been occupied. The County Council has been busy carrying out some of the improvements voted at the last meeting. The three street lamps have- been erected and make a great improvement to the main road, Avhere traffic after dark was i really becoming dangerous. The footpath along tho station road is also being formed. Tlie neAV piano for the school has arrived, and it is the intention of the committee to organise a school concert as
soon as the children have had sufficient training. It is reported that Miss Burgess is -leaving at^the . end^of : the month, as, she ! has acde'jl'ted. charge of a school near Darinevirke!— TCorrejbondellt:
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12814, 13 July 1912, Page 7
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