Te Rau-a-moa.

Kawhia Settler and Raglan Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 281, 19 October 1906, Page 2

Te Rau-a-moa.

(l-RUAI A CORRESPONDENT.) Tbe factory is going great guns aud 270 gillous per day is being put through. Last year at this time the supply was 100 gallons. The Government sheep are doing well. The percentage of lambs was about 85. I notice our member has been indulging in some plain talk about the Agricultural Department. At the close of his speech Mr Rutherford referred to the item re the cost af clearing ragwort at Te Rau a moa and de aired to have some information on the subject Mr Greenshde said that the Department was certainly to be commended for tbe really excellent work it bad done, and the assistance ten dered, in coping with the ragwort pest at Te Rau-a-moa. Without that assistance the settlers would have been ruined, besides which the millions of seed would have been blown from the Pirongia Mountain all over the ad joining native lands and portions of the Waikato, and incalculable harm resulted. Mr Rutherford said be had no desire to reflect upon the wisdom of the expenditure, and was quite satisfied with the explanation.