MATAROA NOTES.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 35, 11 February 1916, Page 4

MATAROA NOTES.

(Own Correspondent.) On Sunday evening last, between 5 and 6 o'clock, a very heavy thunderstorm passed over Mataroa. and. strange as it may appear, a rather heavier storm was repeated at the same time of day on Monday. Tinrain simply came down in torrents, accompanied by thunder. To show how purely local these storms were--, about a mile and a-half along the Te Kapus Eoad, at Mr. Donald Macdonald's, the rain just about laid the dust only.

The wool landing at the local railway station is now beginning to slacken off, and. carriers are looking for other ■employment. A novelty in the way of machinery, imported here lately, was a hay-com-pressing machine, to the order of Mr. David McKay, of the "Waterfalls.'-' but I have not yet been able to learn the details.

Mr. W. Shewa'n has just harvested rvery heavy crop of oats, which, owinr; to the late rain, is still in stook. The various crops of turnips in fludistrict are all that could be desire'' by growers. Mr. Tom Donald. of "Spring-bank." being particularly fortunate with his crop. Some of your readers who took tickets in one of Miss Ford's raffles are anxious to know when m light fou>wheeled buggy, presented by Mr. P. Owens, of Koeke, and s.mie. cattle, arto be draw i for. I fancy this has bee> overlooked by the promoi-ers.

Everybody is complaining about the excessive hot, muggy weather. Nenrlv everyone you meet, clerical and workers, are attired in simply trousers antf shirt.

The three sawmills pre as busy as they can be bringing in timber, and ail the trains passing through carry heavy loads.

The saving of has boon seriously interfered with by the heavy rain of late. The bulk of it is on ihc railway line, and saved by the surfacemen in their spare time.

•Th e dance on Friday night next promises to be a great success, as nothing of the sort has been held here since the Carnival.