Te Rau-a-moa.

Kawhia Settler and Raglan Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 346, 24 January 1908, Page 3

Te Rau-a-moa.

(FRGM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

Ak time of writing tbe chief topic of conveaaation is lortg will the present phenomenally dry spell last. Swede turnips *own after Christmas have failed, but as if to atone for this loss the settler is blessed with splendid burns, the fires spreading of their owe accord over the old clearings, exterminating second growth, and the grass with a coating of ashes. No damage is reported, but there have been instances of people having to watch their homes all night. Crops for winter are an absolute essentia! up here, and soft turnips will have to take tbe place of swedes. To provide tho-e croja takes considerable outlay in many ways, repccially in implements. S me of these agricultural curiosities, although ami-deluvian i>their pattern, have done »»> <1 aervicv On .f rhape expec od t.» d b<- w k agn,nf di e be- p-t 1 J ? i. log ptace oe ebr d u-» tv times it ba? -■ p » c;iv „ the pleact u ) -po ’ but it h-’UI-t b X - f j it- dem . <ta. Th . averji p ; ce far nbtal- ed for w• >1 ba> !>•■- n*b • ; 7|d On'’ 1 tier ba. ju '■ <!i-r<.sei i eon: of bilamb •■ 10 per bead Young «b-ep, if pr- cur-ibb* »' a r> a unable price, pay th- b 9‘. Tb- Eai-t coast two tp'.tb ewh •, th t Me«B”F D«'i 8 ard some o the <»»h- r settlers hav« purcb -san wert much admired. Tb; \ were eusily di~-oi-able from thel cal ewes with at foot. A meeting wa- beld a w< ek ago, dis Cussing the question of sheep dip, and a cnmmi'.’fte oonwisting < f Messa u Orm-by, Daysh. Randall, Honors and Coe were appointed to erect same im mediately. Mr Wro. Ormsby, blacksmith (late Orme by Bros., Te Kuiiik has taken over the shop on Mr Judd’s prope y Basiness is bri.-k, and a number Vehicles are being repaired. A want is thus supplied, settlers being able to get first class work executed at their doors,