WAIAU PA.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 3, Issue 261, 31 December 1914, Page 3

WAIAU PA.

Despite the dry weather some remarkably good crops of oats are to be found in the Waiau Pa district. Mr N. Litchfield has already cut one : of his paddocks and has the corn in stook, whilst cutting operations started at Mr 0. Grinter's yesterday, on his 14 acre patch. Mr Grinter will probably secure the biggest average yield for the district, as the cereal is not only Well headed but the straw is of good length. As a result of the failure of the I hay harvest a much larger area of y land than usual will be devoted to swedes and other* varieties of winter j, feed, the sowing for which is now in full swing. One farmer has laid down 24 acres in swedes and a near neighbour has similarly sown 14 acres. The supply of milk is everywhere naturally much below the average for the corresponding period of recent years but Waiau Pa farmers are able to take credit for the fact that the supply forwarded to the local creamery compares more than favourably both in quantity and quality with that received at surrounding creameries. The Public Hall at Waiau ,Pa will soon be an accomplished fact. An energetic committee has sufficiently progressed with preliminaiy arrangements to warrant the construction being carried out at an eariy date. .■Sure and certain signs of progress of the district are forthsoming in the unusually heavy cargoes of manures and seeds landed from the boats at the Waiau Pa Wharf during the last month.