Tokomaru.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8190, 16 May 1906, Page 5

Tokomaru.

— (From Our Own Correspondent). The want of a stationmaster at Tokomaru is greatly felt. Since the installing of the new Haxmill the traffic has greatly increased, both in freights and passengers. There is always a rush among the representative carters from the mills to get trucks and sheets, and the demand is such that it cannot possibly be properly looked after by the guards. There is, of course, a quantity of goods always arriving, and unless the persons to whom the consignments are made are always on the platform there is a danger of things being missed. A larger goods-shed is also a pressing want, for quite recently the millers have had hemp damaged through the need of sufficient storeroom iu the present small shed. Last week Mr W. O. Beere, surveyor, of Wellington, commenced surveying a block of small sections near the railway station on behalf of Mr J. C. Kelly. These sections are to be offered by public auction next month by Messrs Abraham and Williams in conjunction with. Messrs Stevens and Jones. The sale promises to be a great success.

Judgiug from appearances the erection of a public hall for Tokomaru will take place in the near future. Several meetings have already been held to discuss the matter, and it is reported that Mr J. C. Kelly has given a site. At a recent meeting it was decided that the hall should be sixty feet long by thirty feet broad, and a large amount of money was promised by those present.

FLAX A'. DAIRYING.

The other day a very important comparison was made concerning the value of iiax and dairying land by two prominent Tokomaru settlers who own land adjoining one another. These gentlemen went into returns and showed that the values of product and labour were as follows :—Two hundred acres of iiax returned t"2500 while eight hnn drecl acres of: dairying land only produced £1000. These ligures go to prove the great value of flax land, and settlers would do weli to preserve any fiax acreage that thev mav have, seeing the great advantage that the production of ilax lias over anything else that can be produced on the .same class of land.