MOUTOA NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1746, 9 August 1917, Page 2

MOUTOA NOTES.

(Own Correspondent). Pte. Frank Smith, of Moutoa, and Pte. Roy Greenwood, Marotiri, are expected home this week on final leave. - The recent flood in the Manawatu is responsible for the enforced idleness of the Whitanmu mill at Monica. The volume of.water washed the pump away. Operations will lie resumed next Monday morning. The tlood will also delay the Poplar Flaxdressing Coy. for another week or two. The tram line and swamp are under water. Whilaunui, Ltd. are vacating their offices above the Bank of N.Z, Shannon, on Saturday week. The office of the firm in future will be at Whitaunui, .Moutoa, and the secretary, Air Conquest, will reside in Foxton. We acknowledge greetings from Mr W. J. Rees, late of Moutoa district, who is doing well in Auckland. Mr Rees has taken up Scout work again, and at time of writing was assisting a scoutmaster at Epsom and Ponsonby. Air Rees sends remembrance to all his old friends in Ibe Manawatu. The social held under the auspices of the Alontoa School Committee last Thursday night, despite the unfavourable weather conditions, proved very enjoyable. The committee are more than pleased with the result. The sale of tickets readied the total of £5 Jus. The committee wish to thank all the ladies who contributed their help, also the school children, who sold the tickel s. These little functions arc helpful from a social point of view, and also break (he monotony of (he long wjnter nights. Wo note with pleasure the honourable mention by Sir Douglas Haig of one who was a sojourner in our midst —Corp. Dalhousie, who fought through the Somme campaign. Corpl, Dalhousie was a scribe of no mean order, and judging hy the following lines sent under dale, Prance 27/5/17, :\ pool also; “Ah (ni, tittle tui, singing on dir rain’s bough, And my heart is sick within me For the moon-kissed,wave-lapped boa (dies — Can you tell me aught of Mnoriland and those that live there now/" Which, the Avriter says, is a. long way after Kipling, hut expresses his feelings pretty ayoll at the time of writing.