Awaroa.

Kawhia Settler and Raglan Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 354, 20 March 1908, Page 2

Awaroa.

(FROM CORRESPONDENT.) Quite a ahange has oome over tbe scene and a mn«-t welcome rain set in last Saturday night continuing steadily all night and all day Monday anZ M rnday night, and since then there has been heavy rain at intervals. Thi ground is thoroughly saturated now and there is no need of being afraid to sow grass seed, soft turnips, rape, etc. Ever now , if seed is sown snon, and and we have anything like a mild reason, there will be a fair amount of feed early iu spring. Tbe settlers are al! very busy packing in seed, and getting their clearings own. Judging by the bi? launch 1 *ade thar Mesers Morgan and Newtoa arrive at Awaroa with there must bo % fair quantity of seed coming iou> the district.

Great dissatisfaction is ex?r~stod by one and all at the way the N irthern S.S. Company is treating the settlers. We are supposed to have two boats a week. Thi* is so, I believe, but ths b >at coming o Kawhia on Thursday will n>t cry toe smallest o»rol i a-ard a settler say last week that ha >rdered a few pounds uf some special <eed be requi-ed io mix with his other g-ass saei, and te wanted it by the Pnursday’s boat. But no, tbe Thursday’* w raid n >t bring it, the reply being, “Y>a mu t wait, we can only bring g.iuds by 'doiday’s boat.” (The ano an* ordered was 901 b-) Now, thia seems absurd to my mind, and I am sure the-' the boat running on Thursday for passengers alone omaut pay the Oompany. Even if they have not imo tn load and brihg general oarg» in a Tuursday, I chi ik they might ry nnl bring small oarcel?, pack* ages, etc. If not we are worse off in a way than we ware years ago when we had a much larger boat running once a week, a boat bat c 'uld carry all that wiB requir-d f»:h trip out. Now wc b <ve a much -m *ller boat, making two !riir»D«r w-ek Bit what use is tho s co id ’rip, if we cant get smalt parcels, peck igss, etc, The sooner we get the new C impany to put ou their boat from Wellington the better. Some people are never satisfied, and this is the Cise with the N rtbern Comprny and at the present time they are having all their own w«y. They charge rhe people what they like, and run the boat to nait themselves, whilst the N S.S. Company freights are ridicalou?« Bat wait. It is not always going to be so. In a very short time Wellington boats will te running here, and unlees freights are greatly reduced the Kawhia trade will all be with the Southern port. Kaitoa, Aucklanders! Kawhia at tbe present time is in a eimiliar position to Tauranga, and ae the coraespondent from these to the Auckland Weekly News says Aucklanders don't want them or Kawhia to be main ports and the reason is it will take a lot of the shipping away from the Auckland port. If the Government treated us fairly, and pat a branch line into the Waikato, Kawhia would soon be a main port, as the line would tap all the Southern Waikato aud King Country. It will be much cheaper to rail 30 or 40 miles to Kawhia than at the present time 140 milei to Auckland.

Several • really good Hoes of sheep have arriv >d lately and I no-ice a particularly nice line 4200 R imneyLine >ln ewes, belonging to Mrs Grey. Ah • 3002 tooth R imney Lincoln ewes brought in from the Waikato by Mr Pear on. The last named has aho im ported into h district 6 p ire R mney rams and 1 Leister from toe Govern* meat Experimen -al farm. Sheep farming and breeding seems to be going ahead in ibis parr, and now th a oounsry h so w ill cleared of logs and übbish by the late bosh fires, sheep should do exceptionally well next season.

Several lines of .sheep aud cattle will have to gn to market as the owners cannot hoii th-m cn account of having their grass al! burnt. This is wheai the greatest !>-»s will b% hav ng to n»»w, and ? low pri-*”' and having o b y n is a spring, a u pay perhaps nearly the areaey.