Oparau.

Kawhia Settler and Raglan Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 405, 12 March 1909, Page 2

Oparau.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.; A meeting of the Farmers’ Union was called for Saturday last to arrange for the annual picnic, but fell through owing to no one attending. Mr Robi. Anderson was poisoned the other day through eating wild honey. Mr Wright has ttased the Rotiti burh and intends shifting his mill to a suitable site. He has secured a bullock team and waggon. Timber is scarce and none is proeur able, and although Armstrong’s mill is going full time it is unable to com ple ; e orders. The crops here are g and '-L<chaff is a bright sample. Pane Ng n i is doing the cutting at 3d per The work is well done cansiderin£~th« old machine. The late long dry spell » grass. Irrigation is by some and green feed for milking cows ' by others. Irrigation on a.r maU scale has proved an and if a head race was cut filing the main ridge it would be a boon dairy farmers during the dry autumn.