Moutoa Notes.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3530, 3 June 1905, Page 2

Moutoa Notes.

(Own Correspondent.) Glorious country life. Those who would extol such, let them come out and enjoy the life during the winter months, when the river is in flood, the paddocks and roads slushy with mud, and everything dreary. It’s simply beautiful. Last week the river was in high flood. This week again the same. To-day the ferry-man would only cross the coach, and this evening the ' unfortunate coachy had to almost beg I and pray the “ boss ” of the ferry to | fetch him across and let him get home. I Private traps, the butcher’s cart, etc., had to turn back. And yet they say we don’t need a bridge. Despite the weather sportsmen have been having a good time judging by the continual shooting going on, and if noise be any criterion the pukekos are having a very bad time. Rabbits out here are very plentiful, so much so that the farmers have to regularly set poison, this being the . only efficient means of keeping them down. , Last week a tangi was held in ! Moutoa over an old Maori woman who j had died there. As usual, Maoris flocked from all parts of the district. Peculiar ideas they have in their methods of mourning the dead,