AWATUNA EAST.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LVI, Issue LVI, 30 January 1909, Page 8

AWATUNA EAST.

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

Mr George Bosson met with a bad accident to his hand while driving a mowing machine on Friday last. The wound had to be stitched, and George will have to take a few days of enforced rest.

A good deal of stone-breaking is going on, and now that the flush of the milking season is past, and most of the hay in, not a few rangitira cockies are taking the job on. More men make a non-success of stone-breaking than any-- other job in existence. It looks so simple, yet when the job is tackled there is found to be more art in it than most people think.

A new chum just, arrived from the Old Country, who was walking from Eltham to Opunake at the end of last week, was fairly taken aback when he met two toll-gates on the road. "We did away with those things in my county in England years ago," was his ejaculation, and the look of disgust on his face showed how far he thought we were behind the times.

The warm weather is rapidly melting the snow on the mountain, and this combined with the heavy rains has the effect, of making the creeks and streams very high. On Friday the water at the Awatuna ford was up to the axles of the milk carts, and a lady crossing in a pony gig had her feet wet through the water coming right into the vehicle. This ford is a very fine place for ducks to play in and show off their diving proclivities as they fossick among the /stones at the bottom for pieces oif cheese curd that escape from the vats, but it is not a credit to the go-ahead-ness of a district like this, where every stream should be bridged.