Awaroa.

Kawhia Settler and Raglan Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 380, 18 September 1908, Page 4

Awaroa.

(from our own correspondent.) Spring has set in fully a month earlier than usual this season, and the farmers are all busy just now getting their gardens in order, sowing seed*, eto. Some are clearing ground for ploughing. It is quite nice to see ploughs, sets of harrows, etc., landing at Awaroa, and it only goes to show what a short time it takes for the busdl’couniry to come under the plough. Eight yffirs ago net a stick was felled, nor a friirk io ppr.pL ’s places and now you tea ploughs and other implements being packed, sledgod and even carried to the (arms. This last should not be. If we had our rights, and what was promised us on the day of the first ballot for King Country lands, there should be no need of packing. We should all be able to drive our traps and carte to the farms, and pension off the poor pack horses, suffering from mud (over, caused by the constant splash, splash and slush of bush tracks. It is scandalous the way we have been treated, more especially this part of the district. It is the oldest settled part in the Ki wbia County, and the least has been done re making roads. Messrs Turner, Brandon Bros B>nd Anderson arrived from Wanganui with a nice line of 600 sheep last week. A far greater number of sheep would come this w=y but the steamer charges are far too high- It is much cheaper to drive to the railway and truck sheep tn&n to get or send them by boat. This should not be as water carriage is always considered cheapest. It ia not, from or lo Kawbia. Kawbia is the exception to the rule. If the steamer freights were more reasonable thousands of sheep would pass through Kawhia instead of a few hundred as at present. It all means business to Kawhia and grist to the mill.

Early lambs are doing well and good percentages are reported, but from tlhe present outlook of prices it will take good percentages to pay the grazier.