MARAKOPA.

King Country Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 239, 5 March 1910, Page 5

MARAKOPA.

Own Correspondent

The recent rains have cleared the air, after the bush fires, which have been good this year on the average. The milling Company has brought in a planer for use in their yard at Kairimu. At the present time the mill is closed down pending at'rangerpents for disposing of the wjute gine, The planer, however, will start work immediately as there are considerable orders on hand for dressed timber. The s!s. Rothesay continues to run up to the mill on the spring tides and the Pitoitoi also makes occasional trips to the mill. On her last trip she landed 13 rams for the Messrs Jones.

Potato blight has cleaned out a good many of the crops here, the exceptions being where spraying has been properly attended to. Mr. W. Vicary, of Otorohanga, with his two daughters, is at present' pp a visit to his son's place at Marakppg. Dr. Campbell Jenkins, of Kawhia, was called to Marakopa this week to attend to Mrs. J. Gijes, who ig dangerously ill. The telephone line alongside the river is liable to be injured by the steamer traffic as the wire hangs very far over the river at some of the curves, where extra posts are required to keep the wire in position.