Awaroa.

Kawhia Settler and Raglan Advertiser, 29 May 1908, Page 2

Awaroa.

(FROM our OWN COBRIfPJNDRKT.)

There has been a certain amount el talk lately re guaranteeing cows for the proposed dairy factor,'. I think the idea of starting a fsetery a good ost although perhaps slightly premature. Many farms round the Kawhia Harbour are suitable for dairying, bat the want of roads to convey the cream (ot milk as the case may be) will ba a great drawback for some time. Still, I be« lieve if anyone has the grit to start a central factory somewhere st deep water on the harbour it will pay them handsomely. Now is the time io start; many settlers are finding that grazing stock is not paying too well. The pries of sheep, cattle and wool is low, and if a factory was started many would milk and separate themselves. After tbs first twelve months, others would find out what a good paying game ii is, and start milking themselves, and in a tew years the central factory oa the Ka< whig Harbour would be an established fact and one of tLe larger and heat paying in the Dominion of New Zea> land. If we could only induce Messrs Newton King, J. C. George and R. Cock (the Crown Dairy Co., in Tara* naki) to start here, things would soon boom. They started factories all ovee Taranaki, in far more outlandish and even worse roaded places than Kawhia, financed settlers who could not man* age themselves, with what results, success and prosperity to all. Farmers who hadn't a shilling to start with were driving in their buggies in a few years. Why hot Kawhia people do the same. Make a start; the roads will soon come, if thereis any industry to back them up. The grass right through the district has made a wonderful recovery, thanks to the beautiful autumn we have bad. The growth right up to date has been marvellous. Last weak there was a slight frost, but nothing to hurt yet. Anyone who sowed early, will have beautiful young feed coming on now. Mr Reynolds, another new settlor, has taken up his residence permanently on hia section and is busy getting in timber, iron, etc., to build.

There is not much bush coming down this year. Mr Robertson has a gang of men felling, and a few ether smaller areas may be felled later on. Fencing is being pushed on with this season, most settlers finding it quite as neoesary to fence as fell bush and sow grass. Mr Jordan, Crown Landa Ranger, paid us a visit last week and finds ths

improvements are all well ahead. I notice by last weeks paper the names of Messrs F. A. Pearsow, J. Noonan and T. Parkinson as the likely candidates to contest ths seat on the the County Council in place of Mr M‘Cardle, who retires—and not before it was time be did. The Kauri Biding has been paying rates for the last three years and I dont think £5 has been spent on the whole of the roads in the riding. It is to be hoped that the new member, whoever he may be, wUI look after the roads a bit better, and see that we get at any rate a fair share of what little there is to be spent.