Brief Mention of Happenings in Matamata and Vicinity.

Matamata Record, Volume VI, Issue 499, 24 December 1923, Page 2

Brief Mention of Happenings in Matamata and Vicinity.

' Mr. and'Mrs. .1-1." Cleland are spending the Christmas and Now Year holidays on the Waihi beach. Mr.' and Mr.-*. W. C.Coote leave Matamata to-day for holidays ■to be spent at Ngongotahn. Rotorua. .' 'Mr., and Mrs. E. A. Shanks left •Matamata oft Friday for the Christ's mas and New Year vacation, which will be spent at Takapuna. Mr. and Mrs. ;P. Catchpole, of Matamata, are spending their Christmas and New Year holidays at Tauranga. The schools throughout the. province ,' closed for the midsummer holidays on iThiirsday. They will reopen on February 4. According to the Cambridge Borough Council bitumen can now be purchased at £0 per ton f.o.r. Auckland and the cost of laying same wan Ds per square yard complete. The opening ceremony of the Rotprua Co-op. Dairy Co., Ltd.'s factory was held on Wednesday. Among the speakers were. Messrs. F. F. Hockly and C. E. Macmillan, M.'sP., and C. 11. Clinkard (Mayor of Rotorua)". The formation of the Tokoroa Rabbit Board was gazetted last wee - !:. The territory taken in comprises approximately 120,000 acres and is the largest tract of country controlled by one" board in the province.

Heavy rain fell in Matamata on Thursday, 1.68 in being registered by Mr. W." Halligan. Although some farmers were caught with their hay crops on the ground, generally the rain was most advantageous. The dry spell was not only retarding the growth of grass but was holding up the 'sowing of swedes..

A big mob of store sheep, some 2500 in number, reached Cambridge at the end of last week, after being driven from Gisborne. The trip occupied 29 days. The sheep arrived in good condition, there being no casualties on the long journey.' , The sheep wore auctioned by. Messrs. Palgety and Co., Ltd., al the Cambridge saleyards. They were all 2 and 4too'th wethers and ewes, mostly Rom-;, noy cross, The wethers realised from 24s M to 27s 3d, and the ewes brought an average of about 24s .'kl. The prices were considered satisfactory.

Some idea of the variation in the producing capacity of diiForent cows i- privon in the returns prepared by the New Zealand Co-op. Herd-testing Association, which is now testing some 80,000 cows throughout the Waikato. One cow, a five-year-old Shorthorn, owned by a Eureka farmer, gave 111.181 b of fat for the 80 days of November, and •135.661 b of butter-fat for 47 days Up to December 2. Another cow, a three-year-old 1-ioislein, owned by a Tirau settler, gave only 5.4.1 bof fat. for the :30 days of November and 15.21 b of fat for 54 drt'Vs viri to. December 2.

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