WAITANGURU.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 600, 6 September 1913, Page 3

WAITANGURU.

Own Correspondent.

Since the date of the opening of our local factory has been definitely announced, all are now looking forward to the loth with intense interest, some because of the novelty of the occasion, and others because they are fully awake to all what the opening of a dairy factory means, and mingle with their interest hopes, of swelling considerably their profit accounts during the coming milking season. Because of the doubt existing as to whether the engineers will have completed the placing of the machinery into position, it is not at present known if it is possible to commence opertions by the middle of the month. If however, the completion of their contract is assured by that time there will be quite sufficient; cream available to warrant the running of the factory. The engineers, however, are making progressive headway in their work and are hopeful of being finished by the opening day. The bricklayer has almost completed bricking in the boiler, and his work is a credit to him. The ladies' meeting which was held on Thursday of last week to make arrangements for the opening day was a thorough success, several important proposals being submitted for consideration and carried. All ladies were whole-heartedly agreeable to each rendering their services, and they are deserving of much praise for the energy they are already displaying.

Messrs Bert, Joe and Claude Armstrong, S. Cranston and D. Frederickson, who have the contract cf widening three quarters of a mile cf the Mangaotaki road from the junction of the Pungarehu road, and who have been three weeks on the job, are making rapid progress, and accomplishing good work. They are at present meeting with solid work in the shape of limestone, and are resorting to the free use of explosives. Given favourable weather they anticipate being finished about a month hence.