WAIKAKA NOTES.

King Country Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 100, 2 October 1908, Page 3

WAIKAKA NOTES.

(Own Correspondent). Docking operations are in full swing here just now. Mr Phillips docked last week, and had 100 per cent, of lambs; another settler had 120 per cent. I have always maintained that this part of the King Country will be a great sheep district in time, and the lambing percentages this season bear out my theory... The settlers who have been on their sections for a number of years—without an outlet, otherwise than a pig track —are going to get a six-foot track through during the summer. I wonder why settlers here have been isolated so long, or what the "powers that be" are thinking about, in neglect ing these sturdy pioneers and leaving them without roads, for over six years. What they have had to contend with in the past is enough to make one swear off the Government for ever. At present we are having very warm rains here, consequently the grass is well under way with every indication of a luxuriant growth. Mr F. C. Stewart, the well known piper and Highland dancer, has started a dancing class here and hss a number of very promising pupils who will give. an exhibition of the Highland Fling, and Sword Dance before the public shortly.