TELEPHONES AT NGATURI.
• ..WHAT THE FARMERS ARE DOING. '■; ■ Prom Eohinui to Ngaturi is only a , ehort/distance. (says our travelling correspondent), and the road for some mites '. is parallel to the Tiraumea River. There '■ are some grand hills on each side of the ■ valley—ideal pastoral country.' •' '. . ; The Ngaturi. farmers have, in common ' with:many of their'neighbours, installed ; their own telephone system, and every--one (with one or two is on , .the-'wire. Like others they now wonder) , .how. they. managed to' do without it.'-so- . long.':_ Very, eoon tho whole of. the country will Dβ: a perfect network of telephone wires. The cost of installing the Ngaturi system has been very much less than it would- have been had it been done -.- by the Government. .. When the district was visited docking had commenced,'but in not'a fewv the percentages were not up to the average,' young sheep especially showing a , marked decrease in tho lambing. How- : ever, the lambs are working well and '-.. strong, and very, few deaths have oeour- . red. .;.. ■'. ,/ .-..-■
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 984, 26 November 1910, Page 10
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165TELEPHONES AT NGATURI. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 984, 26 November 1910, Page 10
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