MOUMOUKAI.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 1, Issue 31, 1 October 1912, Page 2

MOUMOUKAI.

A meeting of settlers was held iu the school liouso on Saturday night. A lettor was read from Mr Massoy stating that the Minister of Public Works had roporttd favourably on tho proposed Mauugawhiri-Paparimu road. This means that tho settlers will bo ablo to supply tho Iluuua creamery and ba brought within 18 miles of Papakurii and Pukekohe. It will not only save them the roundabout route via but will also give them a wol^graded cart road to the above centrefe. In other words it will change Moittuoukai from a mere back blocks to ja rural dairying district.

It is understood that surveyors arc at work 011 some j20,000 acres ol Maori laud adjoining tl|is block. Very little conduction would give this area access to the aforomeutiuued vjad aud place it also iu touch with the local stock markets. It was resolved that the attention of the District Engineer he drawn to several had places on the present road with the request, to yet them lixed up in view of the 'approaching wool season. :

Some 000 acres! of bush is being felled this season ahd good progress is being made with tlij' work A section of «S-3(^acres is to be balloted for <ni 2i)tli llctober. This is the last seefcjou of J ike block to be thrown upeii.\ Big/competition is expected. Lambing 1 is practically over now ami very good returns arc reported. Eighty per cent is the lowest ou recold.