KIRETEHERE-MOEATOA.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 426, 30 December 1911, Page 7

KIRETEHERE-MOEATOA.

Own Correspondent. Five or six settlers in these parts have taken advantage of the department's offer in the matter of rural side-delivery boxes, which, upon the receipt of 15s will be sent to any district where a side-delivery service is run. An application form with descriptive pamphlet may be obtained by writing to the Chief Postmaster, Auckland.

Mr P. Saunders, who was the first to supply cream to the Marokopa dairy factory, has a fine herd of cows and intends running regularly to Marokopa Heads from whence the cream will be taken by launch to the factory at the Cherry Trees. Several of cur Marokopa residents are just now suffering from a severe attack of "telegraph fever," induced by the sight of a manifest containing a list of sundries for the Marokopa-Te Kuiti line. We are now looking forward to seeing a similar craze for construction seize the department. The cocksfoot crop for this season will be a good one, the ears being heavy and well filled with seed.

The s.s. Pitoitoi has arrived at last, and the inhabitant? are rejoicing to get long-ordered goods for Christmas. Tree tops are white here and there with the seed down of the wild native clematis, which hangs pendant from the tallest trees and sprawls like a white sheet over the bunchy tea-tree scrub that covers the open clearings, ft might almost be called the King Country mistletoe, because it is so common and yet so beautiful. It is rumoured that the settler s of Ratanui intend giving a "spread" at the opening of the local hall.