MOTU NOTES

Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 12, 16 January 1901, Page 3

MOTU NOTES

Our Motu correspondent writes: A postoffice has been opened at Raukauroa, and is a groat boon to settlers in that par of the district. It is in charge of Mrs is most obliging and attentive to the wants of new sohool will bo erected as soon as the timber is ready. A committee 1 oleoted, consisting of Messrs Beaufoy, Smith, and Redpath. It is expected that the school will bo opened by the end of the summer. The school should have an average attendance of from 25 to 30, all European child-

During tho last eighteen months the Motu has gone ahead wonderfully, and a great improvement has been made in the roads through tho district. A healthy feeling exists with regard to the future of the district. The Settlers’ Association formed recently has been doing excellent work and is well officered. It has a real live secretary and executive who are over on tho alert to keep the requirements of tho district to the front. A great deal has been written of late about tho timber of this district, but in many cases those who talk and write must know little of the real facts of the caso. There is undoubtedly any amount of nmu—quite sufficient to justify the erection of mills, but with regard to other classes of timber they are not to bo found in anything like the extent stated. There is also tho difficulty in regard to cartago and hauling of tho timber to be got over before tho industry can be placed on anything like a satisfactory footing. What we require in this district is to have the railway pushed on with the utmost speed, and towards this end tho settlors of tho back blocks look for the hearty co-operation and support of townsevening for the purpose of considering the advisability of holding an annual or halfyearly stock sale in this district. The matter was gone into at some length, and the question was finally referred to a Committee to got information from Gisborne. . , The Gisborne Times has been well received in this district, as catching the morning mails it supplies us with the latest news, and brings us into closer touch with the outside world.