MANAWATU NOTES

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 173, 17 April 1920, Page 8

MANAWATU NOTES

The plethora of Feed in the Manawatn district at the present season is causing f«ry keen demand for store sheep and any lines offering are eagerly »>whtnttei as most of the farms are understocked. During the drought «*iod numbers sheen came over from Hawkes Baj, ami many lines of these hare gone back tlieio Star l«ing fattened. The numbers of f, t sheep which still pass through Paln rson Norl.bytrninont«V v,,y to work UP ami .town the line keens ,up > an astonishing manner, ami infongby this the factories must be kept well go ng It i evHent thai more sheen are ran" into the North Island works than I be ngexported, and a recent calcula-tio-i is Said to bring out the fact tnat at the Present moment "there are over ci K ht million carcasses in store. Cattle arc coming forward in very large numbers at all the local sales aml reallr god forward sorb. are meeting a keen b ml <te 1 rtlla B Iman v which cam? over from Monday, .t. re uie i he will be welcomed bj« l *c After v^ir^uS^llos^'^opentlro after bauni <*» ";, since it , V a* mevston North " in ' u ," U_ f nrcw ell, and Jiigcouuwj and said that K rte neVly-nppointe.l manager of "fusing of the Palmerston North R, h U' Association decided to \ui e lo of Bailwaw, asking t1 at a burban a.-ea for railway traffic be 'ornied round Palmerslon North. '°\ a meeting of .the Katanga County Council it was resoh;ed tp lake step" %o place, before theratwors ,i proposal to raise a loan of .£3o.ooo Jot stone-crushing and tramway plant, etc , for the purpose ot improving the ioads in the county. It was also resolTcd.to confirm a-special order for the raising of a loan of jS2OnO for workers dwellings.