GUSH about LOCAL INDUSTRIES.

Patea Mail, 21 June 1882, Page 4

GUSH about LOCAL INDUSTRIES.

Cheese-making at Halcombe is being made a speciality by Mr Fergusson of that township. He forwarded a ton a few days ago to Wellington to his correspondents there. The price obtained eqnal to retail prices at Halcombe, We had the pleasure of sampling some grand cheeses, weighing upwards of 40 lbs each, at the store of Mr Tompkins ; and found the quality very superior. We have no doubt that in a very few years this district will be as famous as Canterbury for this product. Mr Tompkins sent away a ton of butler last week from Halcombe. He has twelve or fourteen dairy farmers supplying him, so that every possible encouragement is given them to produce as much as possible for the foreign markets.

Promptness and energy deserve success. The order for the piles and stringers for the temporary bridge over the Eangitikei at Kbknriki was given to Mesrrs P. and J. Bartholomew on Saturday afternoon, and 30,000 feet were on the trucks en route on the evening of the following Monday. Some of the piles were 45 teet long ami measured about two feet at the butt : the shortest length was forty feet. When it is considered that every tree had to he felled, dragged by bullocks out of the forest, loaded on the tramway trollies, and from thence into the railway timber waggons—the amount of labor expended will appear enormous. It also speaks volumes «f the capacity of the bush to be able to supply such a sudden demand for timber of special measurements as this occasion required. The trees from which the stringers were cut were taken to the sawmill and rapidly reduced to the required sizes, and made ready for immediate use, and forwarded to the railway station to be also loaded on timber waggons.—Pending Star.