PATERANGI NEWS

Waipa Post, Volume 32, Issue 1925, 23 October 1926, Page 5

PATERANGI NEWS

OPENING OF TENNIS COURTS

(Own Correspondent)

The Paterangi Tennis Ollulb opened their counts ttor ithlei season last Saturday afternoon in igiloriouis weather. The bri'ghjt sunshine, aftfer so many monotonously wet dayls, tempted out a inumber of viisito,r s from surrounding districts, and as ithe local people were wfeill represented! a fair crowd .resulted. Mr S. C. Macky, club president, apologised for the absence of Mr Stewart Reid, M.P., who was to have opened tbte courts, hut -who was detained hy more urgent businleiss. Mr'Macky, on' behalf of the club, extended a hearty weldome to the visitor's, and in a few well chosen words declared titer courts. open for play for the coming season. Mr J. J. Ryburn, president of the 'Ngahinepouri CHub, replied on behalf of /the visliltors, thanking Paterangi for tbteir wje'lcome. He referred to the miany <gdod games his own olub had enjoyed wiith •PaJtQlrangi dluring ,the past few 'season's, and said two, more clubs, were joining Ithe association this season, wh,ich would' give fresh incentive .to play in thlai fight for supremacy. A few friendly games were then played, after which afternoon tea 'was dispensed and a moslt enjoyable afternoton hrouglht (to a clo^ei. 'HOCKEY CLUB BAiIJL.

Thb Paterangi Hockey Club were fortunate in their choice of the date for thei|r annual ball, which was held las)t Wednesday might. It was a lovely moonlight night with just sufficient snap in thfei air to make dancing enjoyable. Therfe 'was a large crowd in attendance, visitors beling present from all the surrounding districts:. The hall was beautifully decorated in blue and gold, streamers tof thbse colours adorning thje ceiling, and branches ofgolden bloom around Itlhe walls. The supper room decorations were in blue and pink, whilst the tables 'were don'3 with wistaria, and banksia rosea. -The floor was in (its usual excellent order and the music wa|s slupplied by the Melody ©toys' Orchesltra. The 'dutiies of M.'sC. were caDried out by Messrs G. Finch, L. 'Spiers and .S. Cuflley. The Empson Cup ('which ig a proud possession of the Paterangi Hockey Club, they having won fit three years in succession) was.on view on the stage. The bounteous supper was provided! by the local ladies and left nothing itb tote deslired. Altogle'tJher the ball can be voted a huge success, both 'financially and socially, and the young ladies responsible for carrying out |the supper arrangements! and decorations are to be congratulated on tlMr achievements. ■LIGHTS OUT. "Where was Moses when the lights went out"? is a question that is as old as our ancestors arid one we havie all heard asked a|t stomtei time or other, bu't "'where were the residents of Paterangi and what wlelre they doing"? when the lights went olujt last Friday night lis a morle; modern question and one that concerns ujs more nearly. About 9 p.m. the district was plunged in'darkness wijthlout so much as "by your leave" and not even the customary "I'm sorry." The power board is to be commendled on the promptness with which they discovered and repaired the fault. Their motor bike could be heard tearing through the night, and, ilo! half an hour the lighten came on' as sudidto'ly as they wenlt toff. NeverJtheHeJss, 'that Waflf hour is apt to be fraught with' possibiliitiies. 'Supposiing, for instance', .there, had been a dance on in the hall, the chapleirones wouldn't have been much gotod during the period of darkness. No doubt 'the prudent Power Board man thofujg/ht of that, hence his haslte tta "let there be ilight" on the subject. A local farmfea-'s wife, who makes a hobby of hatching chickens in ihcubatorsf, has ifrequfently been alsked why she doesn't run the incubators with electricity. The answer is obvious. The old kterosene lamp has its uses even in thlese advanced days.