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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 118, 16 February 1928, Page 6

Since the New Year the Picton section of the railways has been enjoying quite a boom in trade, largely on recount of the phenomenal traffic in fat sheep (Says an exchange). In addition to supplying the Picton Freezing Works vith about 15 on 16 trucks of sheep per day, the Department has been called on to rail about 14,000 sheep to Picton for shipment to Lyttelton, and, although the number of stock trucks is limited, it has given shippers a very good service. Large quantities of peas are now finding their way on to the railway for shipment Io the port, but the transport of barley, which was in full swing at this time last year, has not yet commenced as farmers are keeping tho grain in tho stack for six weeks or more. Members of' the Gisborne Borough Council engineering staff are engaged at present in making a detailed survey of the site of the proposed dam in Te Arai Valiev, which will form one of the principal links in the. new water supply scheme to bo submitted to the council bv tho engineer, Mr. A. Young (reports the "Herald”). It will be remembered that the dam site was recommended in connection with the supplementary wafer scheme some months ago, and tho engineer was instructed to draw up a comprehensive scheme, with working plans, for submission to the Local Government Loans Board, which has to pass the scheme bofore it can be nut to the ratepayers. The work at Te Aral is likely to consume some weeks.