Manakau Notes

Horowhenua Chronicle, 28 February 1914, Page 2

Manakau Notes

(By our Resident Representative). Only two vats are in use at 'the cheese factory now, the supply of milk has fallen off considerably lately, but as most of the suppliers are feeding their cows on maize and other green fodder, the supply should increase slightly instead of falling off. A quick and effective way (jf cut ling down thistles was seen oil Mr Gleeson's fai-m a few days ago, when a large paddock of thistles, some of Ihem being over six feet high, and altogether as high as a draught horse, and as numerous as candidates for Otaki electorate, were cut down by a mowing machine. The horse polling on the inside or the ,side nearest the thistles was rugged, so as to stop the prickles from hurting him if they fell 011 him. If this crop of "Scotchies" had been cut earlier a good stack of ensilage ought to have been obtained. Some of the flax for the local flaxniill is being cut out of the swamps on Mr A. Drake's property. Mr. Horace Motley is engine driver at the mill and Mr A. Carkeek manager. . Mrs L. Bacchus is leaving shortly on a holiday trip to Sydney. Miss Inglis, our popular postmistress is back again at her duties after having been away for some considerable time.