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Horowhenua Chronicle, 1 October 1913, Page 3

The following news items from Moutoa appear in the latest issue of The Manawatu Herald: Mr \V. S. Carter, who has resided in Moutoa all his life, is about to remove, with his wife and family, to Palmerston. The Carter family are linked to the old days, and will be greatly missed. The farmers all say this is undoubtedly (lie best spring that has experienced for years, and never in the history of the neighbourhood have the farms looked so well. There is no end to the unemployed in this district, although this should not be, as all kinds of farm, station, and sawmill hands are advertised for. A remarkable athletic contest was recently decided at Lake Coleridge (Canterbury) between two of the workmen engaged on the State electrical construction works. It was a race between the oldest workman, W. E. Cook, aged (>.!, and the youngest workman, C. McNicholl, aged 18, over a course of nearly a mile, from a boardinghouse ,situated in the river-bed, up the hill to the enginehouse at the tunnel outlet and back. The enginehouse is over (iOOl't above the boardiughouse, and the grade of the hill is in most places uo to 0 inches. The inhabitants turned out in full force, and the men got away amid much cheering. Cook led his young opponent all the way up the hill, and was the ■first to turn round the eugiueliouse. On the run home he led until about 50 yards from the finish, when McNicholl put in a strong run and caught up. The pair kept together and finished a dead heat. The time for the whole distance was 1H minutes.