OTOROHANGA NOTES.

King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 318, 7 December 1910, Page 5

OTOROHANGA NOTES.

The Railway Department are making giant strides with the works in connection with the shifting; of the Otoro hanga station, goods shed and trucking yards. There are about thirty men employed, and in a few weeks the residents and settlers will have all they asked for, in the shape of reasonable facilities of doing their business in and around the station and yard. The goods shed and station have already been shifted, and the trucking yards are now being dismantled. They will at once be re-erected and enlarged at a more convenient site further away f--om the station. The Otorohanga branch of the New Zealand Fanners' Union are certainly t be congratulated for so long and persistently having advocated this necessary work and for keeping it prominently before the notice of the Minister, with the gratifying results now apparent to all who travel by rail to this township. Shearing is now about finished in the Otorohanga district, most of the settlers having already forwarded their wool to Auckland. The clip has been a good average one, but many of the settlers have lost a large percentage of lambs through the ravages of the maggot fly, which has been very much in evidence since docking and marking. The writer has never yet had such a bad experience with this pest until this season, which I attribute to the close, muggy weather which obtained at marking and docking time. The youngest son of Mr Cowley, of Otorohanga, aged 10 years, had a serious accident on Wednesday. He was climbing on to a moving waggon, and his leg slipped between the spokes of a wheel, breaking his thigh. Dr Fuilerton was sent for and set the bone. The boy is doing as well as can be expected.