DISTRICT NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, 18 May 1923, Page 5

DISTRICT NEWS.

SOUTH WAIRARAPA ITEMS. (Our Travelling Reporter.) “We want to see that there is no trafficking in shares,” said Mr Burney’ Trapp at the annual meeting of the Wairarapa Terminating Building Society, “and that money appropriated is used for building homes by those who require them.” In addition to those whose names have been published as purchasing stock at the Cluny Farm Friesian sale, a promising heifer was securea by Mr E. Knutson, of Dalefield. The chairman of the Wairarapa Electric Power Board (Mr J. C. Cooper) and the secretary-manager Mr P. H .Smith) waited upon the Minister of Finance in Wellington this week and asked that amounting legislation be brought down to enable Power Boards to issue five year debentures. The Minister promised to do wihat he could in the matter. The secretary of the Carterton branch of the W.C.T.U. has received the following reply to a telegram forwarded the Mayor of Blenheim: “Many thanks for kind offer. Case of clothing would be very acceptable.” Donations may be left at Broadbent and Every’s garage.

The Greytown cheese factory will close down at the end of the month to enable additions to be- carried out. It was found during the flush of the season that the 11 vats were only sufficient to cope with the output. As the milk from further cows is promised for next season it is proposed to make room for three vats and another separator. The factory will probably be connected with the electric power when the power is available.

The annual meeting of the Carterton Plunket Society is to be held next week.

Mr A. D. McLeod, M.P., was amongst those who attended the unveiling ceremony at Papawai yesterday.

The annaul .meeting of the South Wairarapa School Committee’s Association is to be held at Greytown on Tuesday, May 29. The following are some fo the questions to be brought forward. Capitation on roll number and not on average attendance ; grading of schools on rofi number; up-to-date sanitary arrangements at all schools; that the continual shifting of teachers throughout the school year is not in the best interests of children or teachers; that the maximum amount of subsidy on voluntary contributions be increased; that swimming baths be again included in the list of work for which subsidies will be granted. While waiting at Papawai yesterday for the unveiling ceremony to commence visitors found something to interest them in watching the primitive methods by which the chefs prepared to feed the hundreds oi natives living at the Pa. The meat, cut into small joints, was thrown on to flames issuing from a heap of stones, and allowed to remain there for half a minute. When smoked it was pitchforked into a heap and salted. The next process was to extinguish the flames and arrange the red-hot stones into ovan shape. The istones were then sprinkled with water and covered with dry potato peelings on which the meat was placed. Hugh clouds of steam arose during this process, wet sacks were thrown over the heap and the grilling proceeded. The big Maori meeting-house at Papawai is at present in a bad state of disrepair. It is understood that money is being raised to renovate the premises and preserve them as a relic of historic interest.