TAIKOREA.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 249, 19 September 1929, Page 10

TAIKOREA.

(From, Our Own Correspondent). TAIKOREA, Sept. 18. After a spell of warm, dry weather, following cold frosty nights, as is the rule this month, the weather has broken and heavy rain has fallen. This is just what the farms need to bring the pasture on in preparation for the dry summer season. Tlio milk supply is still rising, and the local factory is expecting a good yield for this month. In spite of the various work which fills his time fnom sunrise till well after sunset, the farmer and his family still find time for amusements, as the attendance at the pictures show.

On Saturday, September 14, the 3laori Alethodiot Mission concert party journeyed to Taikorea and gave a most enjoyable concert in the Aletliodist Church. The seating accommodation was taxed to its utmost and the entertainment fulfilled even the highest expectations. The charming and gifted party of natives held the audience enthralled with their varied programme, which included poi dances, ukelelc, steel guitar and banjo sojos and duets, and many songs, sung both in their Own musical tongue and in English, with that peculiar sweetness and flexibility of voice that seems to be the birthright of the Maori. At the conclusion of the programme Rev. 3lr Kendon thanked the members of the party and briefly addressed the company. After a few seconds passed in prayer, the audience went home well satisfied with their evening’s entertainment. Sister. Nicholls, who accompanied the party, spent the week-end with friends in Taikorea. The Taikorea School and schoolhouse are receiving a coat of paint, which is making a great improvement. The school children were delighted at the advent of the board’s painters as the novelty of the schoolroom acting also in the capacity of living and sleeping room add greatly to the joy of school life, bringing a change into The ordinary, “sameness”- oi ill© lerm*