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HONIKIWI.

- - ♦ — Own Correspondent. During the past week or so farmers in this district have been kept very busy attending to their flocks. The docking is now practically over and when the percentages of lambs came to be reckoned up they wero found to be very satisfactory indeed, most of them ranging from between 7f> and 90. Shearing has commenced on some of the runs, but most of tho farmers are not inclined to start for a week or so yet. Indications point to a good clip being obtained. The milking season is now in full swing, but owing to the bad state of the road settlers are experiencing great difficulty in getting their cream to the railway station at Otorohanga. Two or three are making butter, and packing this out to the market. In a year or so, given good metalled roads, "the output of cream from the district should be very considerable. A meeting of the settlers was held in the school last Saturday to consider the advisability of (a) forming a branch of the Farmers' Union, or (b) Settlers' Association. Mr 1-lar-greaves moved that a Settlers' Association should be formed. This was seconded, and Mr Budden proposed as an amendment that a branch of the Farmers' Union be formed. He pointed out that it was better to belong to a strong body, one that; would help the settlers as a whole, than to have an isolated body which would have very little influence outside local affairs. The Farmers' Union had done an immense amount of good to farmers in general, and he thought that it would be to the interest of the settlers to form a branch of that strong body. Ilis amendment, being seconded, was put to the meeting, and defeated by a bare majority. The motion was then put and carried. Considering the importance of the proposals to be discussed, the meeting was not attended as it should have been, and it is more possible that if the whole settlers of tne district had been present the decision would have been reversed. Road matters were also discussed. It was decided to point out to the engineer the advisability of laying in a good foundation of bine rock on the worst pieces of the road still to be metalled. The business being concluded the meeting adjourned.

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King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 514, 2 November 1912, Page 5

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HONIKIWI. King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 514, 2 November 1912, Page 5

HONIKIWI. King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 514, 2 November 1912, Page 5

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