Patutahi Notes.
(By Our Own Correspondent),
School resumes on Monday next, after the Christmas vocation. Most of the young folks will be glad to get back to their studies, which will come as a pleasant change to the harvesting operations of the past few weeks. Reports from different parts of the district- point to the harvest this year as being v ery disappointing, and in some eases the crops hardly pay for the 'trouble incurred in threshing. The season lias been a very bud one, and the frequent rains have considerably hampered the operations in connection with hay-making. In one case brought under my notice the yield of grassseed from fourteen acres at present being threshed is not expected to equal what was taken last year.
A painful accident happened to Mr S. Scragg on Monday afternoon, whilst he was engaged carting potatoes into Gisborne, He was ip the act of carrying a sack of potatoes from the dray into Mr How Chow's restaurant when he slipped on a piece of board, and badly sprained his ankle, so as to prevent him getting about for sqiuq days,
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Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 26, 31 January 1901, Page 3
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