WAIKAKA NOTES.

King Country Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 250, 13 April 1910, Page 5

WAIKAKA NOTES.

Messrs Seccombe Bros, are going in for extensive improvements on their Native lease in the Waikaka Valley. They have felled and burnt 300 acres this year and they intend to fall 500 acres this winter and also to erect an up-to-date machine shed -with night accommodation for 1000 sheep. Mr Saunderson has recently had a milking plant capable of milking 100 cows installed in his milking shed. The plant has cost him something like £250. Advance, Waikaka! is Mr Saunderson'n watchword. The settlers throughout this district are up in arms over the scandalous manner in which they have been treated by the Roads Department this year with regard to roads and bridges. The votes are meagre, paltry, and disgraceful, and the methods adopted by the Minister of Public Works in order to block the paltry grants from being expended by the Obura County Council, have made his name a by-word. He is referred to witn contempt by every settler in the district. A great number of sheep have come into the district this year. A line of 600 nice ewes passed through recently for Messrs Terry Bros., of Waikaka, and I hear Messrs Seccombe Bros, are bringing in 2000 shortly.