WAIROA NOTES.

Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 1045, 12 November 1903, Page 4

WAIROA NOTES.

(From Our Own (Correspondent.) “If there be an Elysium on earth, it is 1 this, it is this I ” Well, if green fields, thriving cattle, sheep, and lovely gardens, enter into the conditions which go to make such a .harmonious whole, this holds good as applied to Wairoa. It is true that when one shed is cut out, and the cheques paid to the h'Crny-handed, there may occur a bustle .and din born of the bottle which smacks rather Afore of. Dante’s Inferno than Elysian fields, but then “ all work and no play, etc., [comes |io, and if tfce roysterers like to earn their money like a beast and spend it like a man it is no one’s business they say f so be it 1 .Tastes differ, Several stations have finished shearing, others are at it, while Kiwi is awaitmg the arrival of their army of shearers. The dairy factory is in full swing, and putting through between 4000 and 50001bs of milks per Jdiem, the product of which received special commendation at the Hawke’s Bay show. The directors are to be congratulated on the success attending their efforts in starting this industry, and on securing tho services of such a compatent managor as Mr Clark. Our local Anglican clergyman, Rev. M. W. Butterfield, 8.A., having successfully passed his examination can now add B.D. to his name. This gentleman has, since receiving notice of his success, sat for the senior Theological Scholarship of the Colonies, but of course the result is not yet made public. Whooping-cough is not yot stamped out, and influenza has not a few under its potent influence.