WAIKOKOWAI.
(Own Correspondent) Bush-burning is now in full swing. Messrs. A. and J. McKinnon have had a splendid burn on 200 acres which they intend to sow in the Autumn. The remarkably high price of grass seed this year is going to make it very costly to sow the burns, but, the bush being down, the farmers have no choice but to pay the price and go ahead. Mr R. Izatt had bad luck in losing two sows last week. One had a litter of young pigs, and he lost the lot, so that his loss is a heavy one.
Mr J. Brown’s crop of turnips is a credit to the district; and well worth seeing. In the boy’s matches at the tennis tournament at Mr. Broughton’s, J. Furniss and A. Jamieson won the doubles and R. Broughton won the singles after a well contested game. Quite a number of visitors have been staying with various settlers during the last few weeks. The continued dry weather is a constant theme of conversation here, as elsewhere, and there is every appearance of a shortage of pasture in the Winter, if rain does not come soon.
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Huntly Press and District Gazette, Volume 4, 5 March 1915, Page 2
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194WAIKOKOWAI. Huntly Press and District Gazette, Volume 4, 5 March 1915, Page 2
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