TARIKI.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 September 1924, Page 7

TARIKI.

(iFrom Our Own Correspondent.) September and October are probably the dullest and at the .same time the most busy months in the year in dairying communities. The dullest because farmers are so much occupied with their own personal affairs that they have little time for social intercourse with their fellow settlers or neighbours, and they are particularly busy because these are the months in whidh most of the preparatory work must be attended to for the long nine on ten months of what may be pardonably described as their ‘•harvest” time. The weather during these two months is not always of the best, and the mud and slush which is practically inseparable from cows and rain has a trying effect, and does not tend to make the work of this period any easier, so that when night comes and his work is finished for the time being, the farmer in no mood to wander far afield in search of amusement. These circuanstances miay in part be responsible for we unfortunate country folk being sometimes thought of as dull and unimaginative and why country correspondents sometimes have difficulty in finding matter of sufficient interest to write auout. Another grand concert and dance is in process of evolution, and will be produced under the combined efforts of the Tariki bowling and tennis clubs. uie date will be fully advertised later. This .-promises to be an exceptionally popular concert. The performers are all looming from Stratford, and will include many of the best vocalists, musicians,

and elocutionists of that town. A monster house is assured. A social, the wind-lip of the euchre parties, is to bo held in the hall on Tuesday night, September 30. Considerable divereity of opinion ia met with as to the comparative growth of grass for September of this year with that of last year. So far aa I can judge, from hearsay, last September wine.