Oparau.

Kawhia Settler and Raglan Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 381, 9 October 1908, Page 4

Oparau.

<FBOM OUB OWN OOKBKSPONDKNT. ) Tbe showers on Friday and Saturday have helped on the crops, corn, oats, barley and wheat being now well up and looking well. Tbe small birds are especially severe on barley, digging tbe germinating grain out, eating the shoots and inside. They must be poisoned systematically in winter. Mr Ckrson has sold bis 0.R.P., about 450 acres, at about £6 per acre, a low price for such land, but a rise om last years values of £2 per acre. Given good roads with a Kawhia dairy factory prices will soon be nearer the value of production and as Mr Clarson’s section carries 150 cattle be - sides sheep the profits on milking are greatly in excess of the prices paid for land here now. People who have sold out ai> big prices in Taranaki will come here and make probably more money than in Taranaki, as the toilworn pioneers of New Zealand's pri meval forests always sell out too soon leading tbe real profits to settler No, 2 or No. 8.

Fruit indications are gcod and weather suitable.