Awaroa.

Kawhia Settler and Raglan Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 360, 8 May 1908, Page 2

Awaroa.

(fuom oub own cobrbspondbnt.) Warm sunny days with light show* era now and again would make one think it was the beginning of summer instead of the beginning of winter, and has been quite a life reviver to tbe burnt and parched pastures, and also tbe young grass and turnips. In places where tbe grass and turnips were sown early, they have done remarkably well. In one paddock I ncticed over 100 acres turnips and rape fully 12 to 18 inches high, and several other places both are coming on well.

There has been quite a second growth lately, and tbe vegetable gar. dens are doing better now, pumpkins, tomatoes, etc, cropping better than they did for the first crop. The stock are now all doing well. Many of tbe settlers are turning their oattle into tbe bush and keeping their grass for the sheep, Messrs Noonan Bros brought ia a good line of nearly 100 bullocks and have them in the bush. Stock do remarkably well on tbe bush feed through the winter, and I think ib will pay anyone with good bash feed to stock it well with ca'tle, as all classes of stock are sure to go up next spring.

The natives brought through a mob of 60 wild horses last week which they caught somewhere near the head of Mokau River. •

Tbe shooting season opened very quietly up this way, and I have no* heard of any startling bags. A fail number of pigeons are to be seen flying, but they are not in very good conditian yet, although the bush is full of berries this season.