WHANGAMOMONA NOTES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 3, 13 December 1911, Page 5

WHANGA M OMONA NOTES.

(From Our Own Correspondent.) ’J'iie chief topic (in fact, the only topic) of interest hero this week has been tho general elections. The friends of both tho local candidates worked very hard for their respective sides, but the contest was free from any bitterness or personality as far as Wnanganiomona was concerned. On Thursday night a record crowd gathered outside the store, where results were posted, and each return was ro-.-rived witii applause from one or other section of tho good-humoured crowd. Mr. J. McCluggage received very solid support from tins district. In fact, on the Public Works line he received almost a block vote. The final result was, therefore, a surprise to many enthusiasts here, hut all the same, Mr. Hine’s success was received in a very sportsmanlike spirit. Mr. Jack McCluggage is leaving here this week on a two months’ tour of the South Island. Messrs. Sutherland Bros, are now in their new promises. Their old restaurant has boon pulled down and a draper’s shop is. I understand, to be erected on the site. The Whanga School cricket team journeyed on Saturday to Pohnkura to play a match witii the boys of that school, but tho weather turned out so boisterous and wot that the match had to be abandoned, much to the lads’ disappointment. The Whangamomona sports, which were to have been held on Boxing Day, have been postponed till February. Wo have a first-class little Public ■Library here, but the public do not make the use cf it that they should. Such an institution can only succeed by a liberal patronage of the people and it is a real asset to tho township whsn well supported. The local brick works are keeping busy” now. The proprietors anticipate a very big demand for bricks this summer, for the building trade is going to be very brisk. Mr. W. J.'Glecson has returned from Stratford, where he has been under the doctor’s care for a week or two, having badly strained and torn the muscles of his foot through getting jammed between two logs in the hush.

Mr. and Mrs. Ferguson, with their daughter. Miss Ferguson, are leaving this week for a visit to Southland. They expect to be absent about a fortnight or three weeks.