WHERE THE SUMMER IS LATE

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 699, 27 December 1909, Page 8

WHERE THE SUMMER IS LATE

VERDVNT TONGAKOA •,. Summer: h.l3,'bnlj;;<'jusf; .'begun- in"the • 1-''!33ig .Pohiaroa ;'distriot (says', one'.'of our. /•: .cbrrcspondorits).; The 'seaion . had. been so-rainy! until- about a fortnight ago that ■to a 'c'onsidcr- ,; - ablQ -extent..'- It .isestitoated that.-if. the seasoil had b»ou lino there \<ould have , !of. .. - the district. As nt; is,: the;i'far'mers'-'were; •;- v -working long "days: right up to Christmas ■ VWillve in-order to get l out as;much ; wool ; as Vfiif-fpo'ssiUej'iand:: iendea-yburnto X "'ciiti-; onti" :• ttway,.:iria-i-long' : ?.irbeesabii. of ;-wa£bnyibads; put; ofsthe;..dis;( K/if■ Feedi is-.Tery-iplentiful. all-. the ;way from. t;'VHhVySu.mmito^• : th'd: , Pukatois fpast''Pollgafact jit. is knee deep, And there. -'its'.fresli-; ■fv'",nes3' and-.the:-condition- of feed in-.other jarts --r Wajral'spa,- MannWafcu, v and • '-Ilawke's'.Bayi- '-It. may ..safely be' said that ■ there is .'more .feed now per acre in'-the. .- . and'Rakanui.thanthere is in,any• other. i^ ! "/plirt : bf "the : prbviflce;<This/'howey:er;;apeß; brown, 'The summer has come on*.so sud-£s£.®yy\tiat-while:bit^^ f v ,' : ' to ?complain, of-' thei'h'cat:>'ahd <;thinky dt' 'drought , - still gettiiigimoistpro ' froni'.tho sbil.':.:'_"> ■■ ;iafej'#Pbn|iroavis3bWi;:ftist? getting; prpperly. ■up'' | .wnth: , ; ."the-' surrounding Vitowns.; Hitherto,-for five or six''months ? Ppnga'rpa' sSßrtliercf prisoners; : ontheirfarinSowiug'to 'thobad, state of Just lately;an-additional-milei; -■anda few chains of the- road• from Mar: •' ' ,'kari. to Pongaroa . has' been .made . and toe tailed'' at. a' -cost This .leaves : 'about-17 chains: unfmished, .of the. M ":vh6lo of the 20-mile' road between..theseitwo vplac^s.S>lt"is ; * ahV-impbitaat'-rpad;; in- ' ;- tho. district, laiidiAg. on past/Makuri-for. •' ! J.'another, twenty, miles |o' Pahiatua.'- : . ' Burht papa;;hiis/,becn verj'.puch used on the roads between Pongaroa and RaJkamii, and between Pongaroa and Wai- ■ ono, and v als_o 011 the .-.roads .connecting ■ ■- ■"VVobor, - - Dannevirke, ■. andv/.-'EketahnHa. •'With, fine weathbr and. plenty of. sun and ' V'-.wintl "it\makes. a .road. as as. city it":becbines i ft'-Strohbl&bme/S'ihigh'iCrowh" is '.needed ,tp. x resist the effect of -wit. Papa good for' light t'raflie, where sun and wind •(Y'''A'can' get.-at -a cost jss. a yard to make after tho papa; bag been huTned. v .."'J,-' . ■