Oparau.

Kawhia Settler and Raglan Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 369, 10 July 1908, Page 2

Oparau.

(from our own c - The gwr •' • • •• tbe Farmer. • tioiorj dge, also tne mi- e . put though he P « N® doubt Sir J gT x> co • Oparau Rivar ij . v v wdi facilitate the c »a-» uuc l>q of ha li« dge. A road to Kawnia wn? included but no mention ia made of it in tha reply. Oaten chaff ia being imported here now and has been every winter. Why is this ? Beeshse we have not yet iakan to ploughing and growing crop. Before tbe Oparau district was settled the natives cleared what is now fem land to grow wheat. The old fl nit mill at the back of Anderson's, on he Mangapapa Fall, ground the wbea’. Last year a local settler pat ia a<i perimental patch on tbe poorest fere land here Note tbe result: about 30 bushels per acre of a prime sample of wheat, which was ground iato fl and made better bread than imported flour. Oats, Maize, wheat, rye, etc , do waH, bat want props? edltivatio-i Grapes under cultivation were as gooi as hothouse last fall, but last aeasati was exceptionally suitable where tn* vines were periodically watered. Messrs Schrieber Bros and gang are bard at it falling Dr Mackenzie's native area aud ploughing tbe fem ridgpsr If sufficient pressure is brought } to bear the Matakowhai block should be open next year. What price Oparau, when it is under cultivation. Weep, ye adverse critics of Oparau. The Commissioner of Orown Lands, Auckland, has received no instruction regarding the promise of Mr J? Mackenzie that those Crown tenants who bought their seed and helped themselves during tbe seed time, afte* rhe fire would receive a years reuiis i ■ » of rent. As mi- w»s represented mo fully to Sir Joseph’- secretary by the secretary >f the IjOil branch of cb Farmers Uni hi, it will be fixed a right, as it would n-ver do tor a G • ern iient reprove a topromi**: h»»' on h’J estirrs -ueb a concession. .» t for he G v?rnm »t ’•» repudiate. P «ter, -iu of Tai Hauiaru, i r *o.»v--iigfr»ra a sen is iiiaea<»V T ii who to ferring from inll i is now m u" b»ck oon. Tbe Waikato tl »spi ♦’ Is class institution aud oude -<idul management. Moie solid 90 mde Easterlies and tropical rain. The rood from Oparau is slightly ir> f-»ur \ »»