Motu Notes.
(Times Special Correspondent.)
We are having terrible weather up here at present, and the roads are in a very sloppy state. The new dray formation on the Waikohu-Motu road is also very bad in one or two places, and I think the Ngatapa Road Board ought to try and do something to it before next summer, so that tlio settlers on that road will be able to cart their stores up and wool down before next Christmas. There are seven gangs working on this road under Mr Allison, but a lot of the men are leaving on account of tho bad weather. Anyhow, we ought to have the dray road up to the waterfalls before the end of September. I was up tlio Motu bridle track the other day, and was surprised at the quantity of timber up there. Matai, rimu, and white pine are thick up there. Wo aro going in for the dairying industry up here. We have just put up a new cowshed with ten bails, and aro thinking of going in for a separator next spring. This is a good country for dairying if wo could only grow winter feed ; but we hope to grow some next year. Wo had a very heavy fall of snow last Sunday week, and some of it was lying on tho ground for three or four days.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 150, 6 July 1901, Page 3
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