MAKETAWA.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81901, 13 December 1906, Page 4

MAKETAWA.

FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT. At last! After waiting a month we have now got our post office in full swing. It is already a benefit to the residents of Ipper and Lower Durham Koad. Mr W. Quickfall has been appointed postal officer and evidently intends to look after the interests of the public interested. Mails close at the factory, where the posting box has l>ecn affixed, at 3 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays and we will have a delivery four times a week.

The weather lately has been verv trying, and no mistake; the X. Wester on Monday and Tuesday was the worst we have experienced for many a long day, the rainfall being exceptionally heavy. Two days running was too much for the cows' which showed their objection in a lessened quantity of milk. The suppliers to the factory shake hands \v::h themselves that the previous spoil r.f fine weather enabled .Mr Tarry to linish his contract of metalling the approaches to the I'iakau bridge. A bit of necessary work N needed to be done to the sides of the road so that Ihe ..if: suppliers' carts do not bloc!: tic roadway. 1 notice In n ;>..rts from various l»rtions of i':e .<oith Island that a great number of people are intending to plant tlax as the value of that article is evidently becoming more apparent. There is no doubt hut that machinery will cau=e a transformation in a fenyears and it behoves the settlers of the Moa District to be in time to participate in the flax dividends as well as pork and butter, etc. Surely there can be found many a corner on the farms around that could be made grow flax and if each planted a few acres by using his creek banks couldn't it be worked on cuoperative lines! Wake up! I regret to state that Mr T. Wheeler. who met with an accident a while ago, having injured his knee joint, is still confined to the house, the injury progressing very slowly towards betterment.

I hear occasionally some "jawing" |over the results of the juuging of the butter at the late show, and evidently there is more interest taken in that commodity than people imagine. As 'far as I can make out it seems that if the Government graders. had been appointed all would have been well but no one seems to know who this Mr Lang is, or his capbabilities as a butter judge!