MOUTOA NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 866, 16 July 1910, Page 3

MOUTOA NOTES.

[By Our Own Correspondent]. Moutoa at the present time boasts of mild weather, rain, plenty of grass and mud. The extraordinary amount of traffic is playing havoc with the roads, for besides the ordinary traffic, as many as ro 3-horse teams may be seen on the road in one day carting metal and timber. Messrs Jagger, Greig and Co., and Saunders, are preparing for the carpenters, who will be busy heie for some time to come.

There is a serious falling off in attendance at the local school of late, but we trust that new arrivals at Greig and Go’s, new mill will bring families with them and pull up the average again. Miss Lynch, who has been assistant teacher for the past 18 months, is resigning to enter into a domestic partnership, so we are told. Miss Lynch has been a capable and successful teacher, and her departure will be regretted by scholars, parents, headmaster and the committee.

Mrs W. Coley sen. and family, like the Walden family, are about to leave the district in search of fresh fields and pastures new. Mr and Mrs Horace Payne and family will be their successors.

Report has it that Mr T. Broad intends installing a milking machine and plant in time for the coming dairying season. Mr W. Norman, manager of A. Seifert’s Paiaka flaxmill, hopes to commence milling again when the weather settles. The mill has been shifted and brought right up-to-date.