A GOOD HOMESTEAD.

Putaruru Press, Volume VII, Issue 269, 3 January 1929, Page 8

A GOOD HOMESTEAD.

With the benefit of considerable experience behind him, and a bent for doing things thoroughly or not at all, Mr. A. S. Thirlwall, when he subdivided his farm and sold a portion, set about to make a first-rate homestead on the other. By the term “ homestead ” is meant the dwellinghouse and all outbuildings associated with that part of a farm where the proprietor lives. Firstly a very fine six-roomed house has been built by Mr. J. H. Hawes and reflects credit on the builder and will serve the owner or owners for many a decade and give satisfaction and pleasure the while. The house is very pleasing in both external and internal appearance. The interior especially has been finished in the utmost good taste, each room having its well-blended colour scheme, and the hall decoration is refreshingly distinctive—an amber colour scheme of originality and rare beauty. Nests of cupboards, bins, drawers and inbuilt wardrobes offer great convenience of storage, and the whole layout is designed to be labour saving. Already the place has attracted envious eyes, but an enterprising land agent was promptly told that the house was built for keeps. After having had a look through one does not wonder at the blank refusal to talk sales.

Mrs. Thirlwall is naturally pleased with and proud of her kingdom, hut one fancies that Mr. Thirlwall has a considerable claim on his regard in the very fine and substantial farm buildings erected. The strongly-built dairy shed, with its six-cow milking plant and wide spread of concrete yards, would be hard to beat anywhere in the district. A large, roomy barn provides ample space for the implements, and a good-sized room with elevated floor gives assurance of adequate storage for fertilisers. It would be difficult to sort out a better set of new buildings. The farm is being cut up into small paddocks to permit of the best depasturing practice being carried out. Altogether the place is enough to make even an uninstructed scribe want to go a’farming.