COUNTRY NEWS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 350, 5 April 1911, Page 5

COUNTRY NEWS.

Paemako. Exraordinarily dry weather prevails in the Paemako district, and things are drier than was ever known before. The ground is as dry as chips, creeks are disappearing, and in many cases have become completely dry, and springs ar» weakening rapidly. Vegetation is brown and parched, the only ! exception being weeds, which manage | to get enough from the dews to keep I them going. 1 don't know what other j places must be like when it is so dry i here. Twenty-four hours' rain would , do an immense amount of good. ■ For some weeks past the land- ; holders, great and small, have been : busily engaged with the laying down of poisoned pollard over their pro- ; perties for the destruction of ' Bunny.' The local milk supply to the factory i is falling fast, and is just about half .' of what it was six weeks ago. Several sales of land have taken '; place here, and here are more pending, which is a good advertisement < for our district. Mr F. Kendell, of Sendwick and Kendell, has got the timber on the ; ground for a new house. I understand that he is going to be married soon. ' Thing;-; in the wedding line have been rather quiet here of late, but, from all accounts, several marriages will shortly take place, and good luck to I all parties concerned. j There are about 2000 acrs of bush coming down in this district this winter, so there will be plenty of work here for good bush men,