OTOROHANGA NEWS

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 25, Issue 3766, 8 June 1936, Page 5

OTOROHANGA NEWS

ITEMS OF INTEREST. SCHOOL BUSES (Our Resident Representative.) The appearance of the five new State buses, regularly in the streets of Otorohanga, has given an air of added prosperity to this growing centre. The huge vehicles are each capable of conveying 50 pupils to, and from the consolidated District High School. The teacher-drivers have concluded their special training, and are evidently quite competent on all roads and among any class of Traffic. As these busses take up a fair amount of roadway, other road users are asked to keep a look-out for them each morning and afternoon. Their time schedules are as follows:—Pirongia Road and Te Kawa, between 7.45 and 9.10 a.m., and 3.30 and 5 p.m.; Ngahape 7.30 and 9.10 a.m. and 3.30 to 5 p.m.; Whawharua 8.0 and 9.10 a.m., and 3.30 to 5 p.m.; Rangiatea 7.40 and 9.10 a.m., and 3.30 to 5 p.m. . PERSONAL Among recent visitors to Otoro- ' bangs was Mr J. A. McKenna, a former Mayor of Patea, and a prominent resident and business man of the southern Taranaki town. Mr McKenna visualises a great future for Otorohanga, and its districts and predicts that the town, owing to its unique situation, and its productive rural environs, must eventually become the chief centre of the King Country. Although, in his eightieth year, the visitor is a keen motorist, and drives his own car with considerable skill and care. Mr R. 'R. Browne has been appointed assistant master at the Te Kuiti District High School, and Mr R. K. Gunn, sole teacher at Awamarino. Mir W. H. V. Hall, a resident of Otorohanga, and, more recently at Otewa, for the past 24 years, has decided to retire from an active life, and reside on a small property he has acquired at Howick. Mt Hall was headmaster at the Otorohanga School for 12 years, from which position he retired on superannuation, to go farming at Otewa with his sons. A DRY MONTH -

Last month Was a remarkably dry one for early winter in this territory; only 1.78 inches of rain being recorded at Otorohanga. From the 15th May, onwards, frosts of more or less severity were recorded on each night, the heaviest being on the 30th, when nine degrees were registered. The rainfall occurred on severi days, of which one point fell on the third, and four points on the ninth. At the moment of writing the daytime weather is beautiful, with clear skies, and warm sunshine—very acceptable conditions for the winter period. In May, 1935, there were 4.C1 inches of rain recorded, on 14 days, sixteen frosts, «he highest being ten degrees. BOWLING Bowling on the Otorohanga greens, last Saturday, for the Lissaman Feathers, T. Pallock and J. Lithgow (Kio Kio) 30, defeated A. Crosby and H. Baker (Otorohanga) 19. Despite the advent of winter frosts the greens were in very excellent condition. VALEDICTORY A very largely attended farewell social evening was tendered to Mrs Ellis Thompson, one of Kio Kio’s foremost settlers, for many years past, in the local Hall—which had been specially decorated for the occasion. A Hamilton orchestra w.as engaged to provide the music for the dancers. Mr Cooper (an old settler), on behalf of the assemblage, presented Mrs Thompson with a handsome rose wood Chiming Clock, as a memento of her long and pleasing association with the settlers of the Kio Kio dis-trict-some 26 years. Having sold her farm, Mrs Thompson is retiring at Hamilton, where most of her children now reside. She is a daught-er-in-law of the late Mr J. W. and Mrs Ellis.