SETTLEMENT ABOUT NIKAU.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1244, 28 September 1911, Page 8

SETTLEMENT ABOUT NIKAU.

*. PROGRESSIVE DISTRICT. After leaving Xikau, writes our traveling correspondent, the road winds along lie toil or a bluff overlooking the Mnnganao Id vcr. There are .some very fine Pint* a>. the banks of tho stream, and altt.j.aix tw an , of no vm . Brmt ratent hey miiks ~,, f or this by the quality of /no and. jhe principal branch of farming here is dairying, for which a considerable portion of the land is eminontlv suited. A good deal is more rolling-coun-try, not so well adapted to this industry; "lit it is wonderful how well the dairymen aro doing on the rougher parts "\ very great deal depends on the method of !"ming, but a goodly number are stnmpn? and ploughing and preparing the land f nr f ot |,| cr rrops of vnri<nls khuU Mangolds and carrots do well, but green crops are inclined to run to too much fW ' b,,t , wl \ cn K l ' ol ™, for green feed, as they are about here, this is an advantage. ,w i ■ pa?t Sl * , or seven J<*™ a wonW- f lm ,? rov ' , ."«". ,t is to bc notc d in tlie look of the district generally. A vcrv „'°" / ,me ° S0 ft , V' as a ,lrMr .T wilderof stnmns and ogs. Now there ire Ploughed paddocks all ove the di4n'ct and several Canterbury farmers W i,*'™ ln , n \ o,,t J'"r«. and whether thev «* more alert and pnshfnl or not. certain U is that the country generally has S'V" a ? 1 a, , r , of on" which did uouslj Further away back, nearer the S (t '? T"»nias). the holdings are considerably larger, the country is rougliSirHni.' ° f M " rf f; le5!S Wanted 'to dairy n g, consequently the settlers away from the river arc chiefly sheep-farming.