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Motueka Star, Volume II, Issue 99, 25 July 1902, Page 4

No part of New Zealand has, according to the Auckland Weekly News, made such vapid progress in dairying as Auckland, and' no part shows anything like the same promise of future •development. No less than forty creameries and factories are to he opened for the coming season. The expansion is not confined to one particular.district ; it is going on in the Waikato, in the Thames "Valley, and elsewhere, but it is perhaps mote .marked in the great'peninsula north of Auckland than elsewhere. This' neglected portion of New Zealand,' which the Government do not consider worth opening up by roads or railways, has magnificent dairying country.- One of •the.most encouraging features about Auckland dairying is the high quality of butter and cheese produced. Five per cent of butter fat is common enough in the North, and on good land an acre of grass will carry more stock through'the year than any other part. .of. New Zealand, for it is an undisputed fact that on the pastures north of Auckland grass grows all the year round. ‘ ' The Dunedin IStar of the 14th reports —-A ripple of merriment passed over the congregation at the Hanover street Baptist Church yesterday morning when the preacher, the Rev. J. R. W’ard, said that he had received during the .veek an anonymous' letter charging him with a grave wrong, in that he ha». joined in a game of ping I pong. Mr Ward added that he had no sympathy with the kill joy sentiments which denounced all amusements and recreation as unchristian and mischievous. JOB PRINTING of every description executed with neatness and despatch at the Motueh a S tar Ofice \