SUBURBAN PARAKAI.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 6 November 1919, Page 3

SUBURBAN PARAKAI.

[By " Wayfarer."]

In search of fresh air and outlook, we wandered north towards the sandhills. The first place of interest is a dairy farm, set in in green, with a dark border. Here Mr and Mrs Rennie and little daughter are established, and are carrying on a successful business. Mrs Rennie has her own particular diversion in this healthy locality, and sometimes hfer chief decorations on the kitchen table include a basket of eggs. Qnward north \ye reach a spot on the left qf the ro,ad, which I should naqie "Forest (irove," from its protected position, surrounded by trees of every shade and protective quality. The grounds are adapted for, and produce the finest of flowers and vegetables, and the farm is rich in pasture, well fitted for most kinds of cereals and root crops. Mrs McAdam is the owner of this well established farm. Amongst other items on the stock list is one of 150 black Qrpingtons, yielding something near 60 dozen eggs per week. A nephew of Mrs McAdam, Alexander Cameron, the lenowped athlete, visited this district afciout 14 years ago, and two of her son,s are fair exponents of the hammer, stone, and caber.

Adjust the compass a few points to the west and proceed at three knots. In balf-an-hour you reach " Highland View," the residence of Mr James McLeod, rising about 200 feet above the surrounding flats. The outlook from this point-of vantage io one of the finest in the Kaipara, out and away over a fine expanse of land and sea scape. You can qlearjy §cc tfcje t\yin c.rested hills at the back o.f Ma.ungaturoto This farm, shows method in theory and vyisdorn in practice. UYery acpe as far as, the eye can reach is being put to the best possible use. While Mr Jarhes McLeod and I would probably cross swords in regard to '" summer fallow," or the introduction of a stouter strain (say Hereford) to give strength and stamina to the Jersey stock, in most other t)ointq fjf poetical farming, \. am doubtful if we coukl reasonly set up a line of

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