WAIKATO NOTES.
Own Correspondent.' The death of Mr W. M. Bankart, of Te Mata, came as a great shock to his many friends in Waikato. The deceased gentleman was widely known and respected hereabouts, and much regret is expressed that his severe illness cut him off in what was practically the prime of life.
We have had a series of robberies in Hamilton which have so far baffled the efforts of the police to discover the delinquent. Seven burglaries is the total list for the past three weeks, one entry into a private house yielding (is that the term?) the sum of £4O to the robber. There is a general uneasiness apparent, *and we are all wondering who will be the next victim to be selected. Poverty has its advantages, after all, and Shakespeare is echoed by many local , folk when they remark "He who steals my purse steals trash."
Piako County Councillors are very wrath at what they consider to be the way in which they have been ignored by the Government when framing the Estimates, and one member has had a good deal to say about what he. describes as the negligence of the Member for the district in not looking after them better. This councillor compared their lack of giants for local purposes with these given to Waikato, Waitomo, and Raglan. The Council decided to write to the Member and the Government, pointing out the injustice done the district-by giving no grants to them.
"Pigs is pigs," says an old saying, and farmers are more and more realising the important place they hold in. the economy of the farm. An important meeting in connection with the pcrlc export trade was held at Cambridge a few days ago, when an interesting letter was read from .Mr J. E. Makgill, of Waiuku. He had had a London c,able offer for 100 pigs a month of 60 to 90 lbs in weight during January, February, March and April, at s]d per lb, all charges paid to London by the sellers. The meeting on the spot guaranteed 90 pigs a month, and it was expected that 200 a month could be guaranteed. It was intended to ask the local dairy companies to guarantee the cost of an'-up-to-date curing plant, and to ask the Farmers' Freezing Company in Auckland to erect it. Te Kowhai farmers, too, are being interested in the subject, and at a recent meeting passed a resolution that the time had arrived for the industry to be worked on a co-operative basis.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 228, 26 January 1910, Page 5
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