MOTUEKA.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1746, 23 August 1905, Page 24

MOTUEKA.

(From Our Own Correspcndent.)

The winter though it has been more than ordinarily wet has been very mild, and spring has put in an early appearance. Orchard trees are beginning to show signs of returning life, and the fields are by their change of tint showing that f;rowth has set in. Unfortunately the ong continued rain has thrown the farmers back with their agricultural operations and many are wondering when they will.be able to get their sped in. Our new medico. Hr Jeffries, has now fairly settled down to his practice here. At present he is located at the Wesleyan Parsonage, but I hear that Mr H. Boyce has had his tender accepted for the building of the doctor's' large new residence in High street. Building is going on apace in many 6 arts of our little town. Rankin and on's large new buildings on the site of the one destroyed by the late fire, are now approaching completion. They will be, when finished, the finest buildings in the borough, and the firm deserve all success, for in spits of repeated, misfortunes they show a very laudable spirit of enterprise. Mr R. xry is going to start a livery stable here and is having a large and well-designed stable erected next to the Co-operative Store. Miss Winder’s residence and-private school has just been completed in Greenwood street. Many of our residents in the centre of the town had rather more than a slight scare last week when it became known that one windy night an attempt was mad* by some unknown person to burn the public school. Had the attempt been successful there can be little doubt that very few buildings would have been left in that vicinity by the morning. The affair was reported to- the police, but the offender has so far escaped detection. The scare has served, once more to stir up the citizens to d:ecuss a scheme for fire prevention, but nothing definite has been done.