DISTRICT NEWS.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4511, 5 January 1923, Page 2

DISTRICT NEWS.

NETHERTON. NETHERTON SPORTS GROUND. The Netherton Sports and Recreation Committee is at present very active. Suitable ground has been acquired, and two tennis courts have been levelled ready for metal and tar. It is the committee’s intention to lay down croquet and bowling greens. The sum of £l4O has been colleeted locally and 35 members enrolled. FACTORY RETURNS. During the month pl December 461 cartes of cheese were shipped from the Netherton factory. This is about the same as was shipped during a similar period last year. The latexgrade notes available show that for November the average was 90.97. This is very' good, considering that the grade of the best factory in the N.Z. Co operative Dairy Company was just over 92 points. No second grade cheese was made during the month-

WAITAKARURU. LAUNCH PICN.IC.

Despite .the boisterous weather on January 2 about twenty people from Waitakaruru set out on the oil launch “Manuwai,’ the vessel that the local branch of the Farmers’ Uuniop has been instrumental in getting for the Wa:t,akaruru-Auckland-Thames trade, for a combined launch picnic and fishing excursion ,tp New Brighton. The sea, however, proved too rough to permit of a landing being effected, so the party went about a dozen miles down the coast and fishing was engaged it, but with very little luck. The r&turn was made at 4.30 p.m., after an enjoyable, though slightly disappointing, day.

NGATEA*

ELECTRICITY ARRIVES. The Thames Valley Power Board s ■wires as far as the Ngatea factory were made alive for the first time foi a few minutes late pn Wednesday afternoon. (On Thursday connection was made to the factory and lighting and motors tested. It will probably be a few days before much power is used, as there is still some work to be done in the factory. The del.ay in crossing the Piako. River was caused by the Marine Department insis,ting that the cuiifint should pass over the river by cable instead of by an overhead wire at the bridge.

Eleetr’city is used for driving ■t|be hew Silkeborg churn, which is a machine capable of -working ovei a ton of butter at once. It is very differer:l te the Topliss ■ churn, as the “workers” are a fixture inside and the butter is removed at the side instead of at the end of the churn.