PARAPARAUMU NOTES.

Otaki Mail, Volume XXVIII, 4 August 1920, Page 3

PARAPARAUMU NOTES.

'• The ambulance .classes, held here b; Dr. Sharp, of Otaki, are well attended L’e and already several of the pupils- arc e looking forward to the examination. In common with other parts of the i;, district the tanks —or at least many of ji 'them—are getting low. The rain that u . fell on Monday, night was far from (] sufficient, and a .heavy downpour is necessary. ' I,* Farmers complain of the shortage of l< S feed, and consider that the growth this 0 time last season was much in advanco '■ 'of that of to-day. d While sugar sells at 7d at Otaki, 6jd d at Waikanae, and Gd at Levin, one ; local storekeeper is retailing it at 3 id. i. i Four pounds is the maximum amount i I sold at one time. i It is not yet certain whether the ( ‘ local accommodation house, so successfully run for many years by Mr W. 1 Wise, will be open for visitors. Mr | Pratley, the new proprietor, may de- ! < cidc upon a quiet life. 1 Messrs Adams Bros, have taken up i residence here, and havo secured several sections with the intention of I building on some of them when ! materials are available. Fourteen successive frosts were recorded here during the cold snap, and 1 (plants, which have previously not been touched, were withered. Residents here aTe anxious to do j something in honour of men who fell fin the war, and with this object in j view a meeting will shortly be called |i to consider the matter. Many favour I'erecting ornamental gates at the entrance to the Domain. A whale was washed ashore hero on Saturday, and now lies stranded on the beach Opposite Mr A If. Batten’s residence. Mr Batten, who found it, states that it is of the hump back variety, and measures forty feet in length. When found the monster was lloating on its back. It is the inteu- . tion of Mr Batten to render the carcase j and secure oil, which should sell , readily. , i j A fish, measuring some fifteen feet in length, two feet wide, was also | found by Mr Batten on Saturday. In ! appearance it resembles the ribbon- , fish. 1 The local domain is shortly to be j I improved, it being the intention to [ hold the annual sports gothering there, j Besides being more central, the ground should be much more convenient, i Sharks are plentiful off Kapiti, and fishermen find them very troublesome. , Many nets arc damaged by these inon- , sters. Fishing, despite the above draw- / back, is brisk, no less than three ’ I launches being actively engaged. Most of the fish caught is railed to cither I Wellington or Palmerston. The first step towards constructing , a subway under the railway here has been accomplished. A section by Mr | W. J. Howell’s residence has been [secured, gravel is being taken there- j ! from to improve the soldiers ’ road, iand. incidentally, the pit is being ex- • ; tended to the railway line. . I j Many farmers here are “fed up” , ;of winter milking, and babies or no | [babies, several refuse to supply the (city with one of the necessities to build ! up bonnie babes. 1 There is a form of paralysis here among stock. Calves, especially, arc I seized in the hindquartors, and in rapid time are dead, j Natives from this district arc at (present attending the tangi which is j being held at Waikanae over the re- I I mains of the late Mrs Davies- i