Oparau.

Kawhia Settler and Raglan Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 369, 17 July 1908, Page 2

Oparau.

(from our own CORRI’SP sd ■ f The rain : t rainelh pr-.’fcr well *! time. We have a tini day o •-:.-,i - oar winter isolati m from he-i - nd . d ited fr im feur weeks back Not much ploaghioii h >ei’:c yet but in a few yeirs wi , rer • feed, chaff,etc., wil l be ? nvr are being plowed now wi h -n - , What laud has been p n: lg a with gra-s has carried mores', ek better fee! tian fallen bush land Bushfa ling geson as mui o I e The are* fallen this season he t under late years as the big fir* i 9, spare cash. The bad weather is prepara ory work getting milkinj w ready. If the weather doe* nit a p <• soon the milking will be Uter -. ber. The coat cones heavy af- - g cleaned out of all spare cash b th • i .o »s once the work is done tbe poS .- • red. New old barns where sheep w - » feed are now not so gooi ds w * « sto k were all taken cS and h t chance to grow. Messrs Scott and Elhott bma;*tt tssir sheep back from Harihari la-t week, A petition from the different ..f the Farmers* Union to the Dominion gxscutive, W ellington, is bring signed, nevi-1: “We, the undersigned farmers of the Dominion of New Zaalaud ; bring of opini >9 that the only way the Union can practice ’v assist th- 1 farming industry is by racing an active part in politics therefor* pray s immediate steps be taken te form a Farners Party and that the Union supp • t » 1 a« will give a wr-.ce-i Istrenuousay support cue fdt a planki of our platform :—(1; p- .» revenue purpose only ; {3) >pti .u of land ; (3) That oalv rate .-vert powered to vote ou local G»v j--.. tors in Couity Councils, ro d rural districts. All i ter-a&a indirectly , whethe Umou m .a m s are requested to sign this petiu n, - < <s to tho advantages of tbe p i*iuc r . f benefit financially to th_.ee wno g e living indirectly from the Und A p .i a will be in the store at Jparau f »c siga » a Mr Jeunings, M,P„ gives small a .«r getting Oparau’s wants supplied, We w * try Sir J, G, now,