Waitoa.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVI, Issue 43083, 18 April 1907, Page 2

Waitoa.

[Our own Correspondent ] A meeting was to have been hold on Monday night to consider the advisability of forming a football club, but owing to the very boisterous weather it could not be held, I hear that Mr Seaton has disposed of his farm and is going to live on the place which he purchased from Mr limes. Mr 11. Ilyde has bought the 50-acre section that formerly belonged to Mr J. I'orreus on the No. 4 Waitoa Estate road. Mr Ivey, of "Waitoa, has also disposed of his farm.

On Sunday last, a Presbyterian service was held here by the Rev. Golin Robertson, and his popularity as a preacher is evidenced by the fact that the church was crowded. Mr Loach, Wesleyan preacher, of Ann indale, who was present, look the opportunity of saying good-bye to his numerous friends in Waitoa, previous to departing for Dargaville in Northern Wuiroa, where he has been appi inted missionary to ’.he circuit. Next season promises to be a busy one for the local creamery, as Several of the new settlers contemplate goiug in for big herds of milkers. There is some talk of forming a choir in connection ' with the church here, and it is to be hoped that the rumour is true, for there is plenty of good talent in the district, which, with a reasonable amount cf practice would form an efficient body, at the same time providing pleasant evenings for the young people during the winter.

I A painful accident liapponed on Monday to a boy named Frank McCarthy, youngest sou of Mrs D, McCarthy, of Waitoa. It appears that Frank and several other lads were playing leap-frog in the school grounds, and whilst ill the act of springing, he slipped and fell, breaking his arm above the wrist. Mr McLean, the headmaster, was at once informed of the oecurre: ce, and at once had the little fellow brought into the school, where the injured limb was put in splints by the assistant teacher, Miss H. S. Taylor, who rendered first aid, after which he was driven to Te Aroha for medical treatment, The Te Uruwhao tennis club will play the Waihou club, at Wuihou, on Satur* day next. The iiax mill (Farrow’s) is quite busy, there being plenty of flax on hand and to arrive.