MOUTOA NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 703, 30 December 1909, Page 3

MOUTOA NOTES.

; [Own Correspondent.] The holidays here are passing very quietly, as in all dairying committees. On Boxingl Day a number of families went for a picniip to the Shannon Gorge. A number of Shannon people were also found at this somewhat’ popular resort. The Manawatu. County Council has formed what are known as Smith’s Road and Saunders’ Road with plough and road machine. The work is a credit to the machine, and will be a boom to several long-sufferirig settlers who were practically locked in last winter A trial bore for water was recently made at the Shannon Dairy Co’s, factory at Shannon with splendid, results. Water rose feet above the surface. This will simplify the cooling of the butter at'the; factory, and save, cost of freezing. Mr Chrystall, who put down the well, also put down several other bores in'that neigh bonrhood, some of which were unsucessful. Mr W-S. Carter is successfully harvesting his grass seed \by machinery this season, thus reducing] the cost and worry , labour to a minimum. - . J The river has of late been low, and shallow for wa&£r carbut the swell wilAsjerliaps boats to relieve tTsie'eoiag€sted store of bales at some.of the mills. . The potato blight is very slight heff this summer, some of the' crops being quite clean and healthy. fall fescue seed is in fair, demand, and grass-seeders are ’at -woijk on the river banks wherever 'thefe is a small crop to be had. i f, ;