MOTUKARAKA
(From our own Correspondent).
I notice that the correspondents generally complain of the deplorable wet weather, so will not say anything on that topic, except stating that we are getting a full share up here in the north. "VVe should not be true Englishmen without we had our grumble about it. Arbor Day was kept here for the first time last Friday the 4th inst. It was certainly not such a day as one could have wished, being cloudy, somewhat chilly, and rather showery. However, about twenty assembled at the school ground to celebrate the day of tree planting. The Committee had received one hundred trees from the Whangarei nurseries and over eighty were dulv planted by those present. No doubt more of the settlers would have attended only that a member of the school committee, seeing the unsettled state of the weather, very officiously informed some that the holiday had been postponed. Up to the present we have escaped any ▼isit from the epidemic of measles, but I hear it is not far from us, it being very bad at a native settlement on the opposite side of the river. Planting and cropping is the order of the day when the weather will allow. We are compelled to discontinue our Band of Hop® meetings for the present, as the tracks are almost impassable during the winter.
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Wairoa Bell, Volume V, Issue 211, 18 August 1893, Page 3
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