COUNTRY NEWS

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2576, 10 August 1909, Page 6

COUNTRY NEWS

MOTU. (From Our Correspondent.) The greatest social gathering that has yet taken place in the Motu district was held in the P.K.H. Company s woolshed on the 3rd inst. Conti ihutions were levied on the settlers for supplies and all the youth and beauty of the district with many visitors gathered together evidently determined to make a nleasant night of it. . The first part of the programme comprising some twelve dances passed off most successfully, and the company then sat down to a sumptuous supper served in a style that a professional caterer might envy. In spite of the understanding that politics were to he prohibited the second part of the programme was marred by their introduction —sitting in evening dress in a draughty shed listening to political dissertations from budding orators is not a. very lively way of passing the time. However, when the embryo Prime Ministers had had their say dancing was resumed and kept up until the dawn enabled us to find our wav home through the mud. To anyone living in the district a few years ago the idea of such a gathering of happy, well-dressed people would have appeared an absurd impossibility. The dresses of the ladies were superb, and if the men present had been asked to decide the belle of the ball the voters would have been so equally divided that the only decision that could have been arrived at would have been that they all ‘ tied. Apologies for absence were received from Mr E. B. M. Thomson and the -Hon. Jas. Carroll, but their absence did not seem to particularly cast a gloom over the proceedings. The trout ova are reported to be hatching out very successfully and will probably bo the means in the near future of providing reports of “fish suppers”—luxuries ' hitherto supposed to be confined to towns. ,