HALCOMBE NOTES.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 12208, 20 November 1920, Page 4

HALCOMBE NOTES.

From-Onr Own Correspondent. Last Tuesday we had a visit from a “gentleman in blue,’ 1 but on this occasion, to use an Irishism, the blue was mufti. He was looking for a man who was wanted by the police for a heinous offence; the nature of whicn was not generally known. The individual searched for was in Halcombs all right, but somehow gat to hear that a representative of law and order was on his track, so promptly decamped, and up to tha time of writing has not mt.de his whereabouts known. The police never seem to have much luck when they coma to our village. The person required iias either flown the night before or the morning after. Soma time ago, it seems years, the Justice Department announced that It was intended to station a policeman ia Halcomb e in the fatara, though not the immediate future. The “immediate future’■ has come and gone, and the future ia almost upon ns. The most notable thing about official documents is their refreshing vagueness. Halcombe Foresters entertained a party of Feilding Foresters in the local hall on Wednesday evening. The main feature of the evening was a card tournament, which the visitors woa by one point. An excellent sapper was attended [to after the earn games, and was enlivened with songs, etc. A long felt want iu connection with primary education in this district is about to be realised. People who live iu the Mount,Begg locality have long needed a school, and are now about to have their wishes realised, ai the local firm of Oook and Mason were this week notified that their tender fer a school building in that looalit 7 had been accepted, and the work would be required to ba gene on with without delay. Unsettled weather still continues. When it is not blowing, it is raining, or doing both, or bailing. Late crops will be lata this season and no mistake. Shearing is also dragging along slowly, and so far the shearer’s Jot has not been a happy one this year. Local fruit is likely to be very scarce, heavy-wind and rain keeping on incessantly when the trees were iu blossom. Cherries, pears and apples were greatly interfered with, and where there ought to be bushels of fruit there will not be pounds. Grass and weeds grow apace, and rarely has their been such a luxuriant growth of vegetation as ia the case this season. Consequently cows are doing well, though the mud where there is little metal ifi cow yards is unspeakable. In one of my notes last week it was made to read that Raugatawa Riding contributed most rates of the Ridings composing the Oroua Council. It should have read that in the Raugatawa Riding was the largest individual contributor—tho meat works.