MORRINSVILLE

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4458, 4 September 1909, Page 2

MORRINSVILLE

(From Our Own Correspondent.) A meeting of the congregation of St. Matthew’s Angl’can Chr -ch was held in the church on Monday evening, for the purpose of discussing the position of the proposed vicarage. It was decided to move the church to the eastern side of the ground, and turn it so that it will be in the correot position, and to build the vicarage on ths western side of the section. The above, of course, is subject to the Bishop’s approval. “ Dido ” has also been paying this district a lengthy visit, blowing down trees, and causing the roads to be cut up very much, especially as there is a great deal of carting going on at present, with the number of buildings being erected. Some close tendering was done in the tenders put in for building Mr Turnbull’s house, less than £4 separating the highest and lowest, Mr H. Page being the successful tenderer.

Messrs Parlour and Co. have a large quantity of green flax at their flaxmill, and a start is to he made stripping at once. It was the intention to have started on the first of the month, but there was too much water in the river, which, however, is going down rapidly. The local Volunteers are using every effort to make their ooncert and dance a success, and as the weather has taken a turn for the better, no doubt they will be well rewarded, and the rifle range will become a practical certainty. Your Waitoa readers will regret to learn that Mr B. Denley, builder and contractor, passed away at his late residence, Moorehouse-street, at 7 o’clock on Friday morning, Deceased, who was suffering from pneumonia, had only been ailing a short time, and leaves a wife and five children, the eldest of whom is fifteen. Much sympathy is felt for the bereaved ones. It is only about a year since they arrived here from Invercargill. Until recently Mr Denley had been working in the Walton and Waitoa districts.