MANGAHAO NOTES

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 101, 23 January 1920, Page 11

MANGAHAO NOTES

Wednesday's rainfall registered I.GO inches, and as .a result it is sloppy and unpleasant. underfoot. A month or so ago this amount of rain would liavo 11 rant a stoppage of fill work for two or three days, but fortunately the road has boon so far completed a« lo allow a good deal of machinery to ho carted inlo the sawmill site, and this finds employment for some of the men, who are working under improvised cover. The hutments are sufficiently.fonvard to allow a certain amount of indoor work to bq done. ! The Y.At.C.A. has decided lo start operations nt o-ii early date. It is proposed to have a lareo tent, until Ihe wading room is built, where papers, books, writing materal. games, ofc., will be at the disposal of the men. An soon as tho recreation room is ready, a mov ing-picture plant will be installed. Mr. Morton, who is to bo tho officer in charge, paid a visit to the works, and selected a site for the tent'. The local branch of the Y.M.C.A.-proposes to hold its monthly Sunday afternoon concert on February 1. A big fall of rock came down on the road, about four miles from Shannon, owing to the recent rain, It will fake two or three days lo clear away, and in the meantime traffic is suspended. The noed of regular deliveries of mail matter and papers is pressing. Already the rainfall for this month has excelled that for December by several points.