COUNTRY NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81902, 14 December 1906, Page 2

COUNTRY NEWS.

From Our Own Correspondents. WAITARA ROAD,

W'e are having very changeable weather of late, but with more sunshine we will get more grass, and more milk. The supply at the factory exceeds that of last year, and the tests all round are higher. The tests last week ran"e from 3.4 to 4.2.

Vvaitara-road factory - took both cups at the New Plymouth show, which speaks well for the manager, Jlr 11, Limmer. It will be necessary for the suppliers to take every care in the handling of '.heir mill; during the coming year if the factory is to have anv chance of retaining the cups. Farmer* are busy ploughing for tinnips, and some crop are already up and looking well.

J liaie notiied several crops of oats well out ill ear, giving promise of "oud yields. Wheat is also looking well. Tile potato crop so far is free from Might. Some crops that have not been sprayed are looking as healthy a any 1 lane seen.

.Messrs Cartwright and Tarrv are pushing on with their contract,"which when complete will see the W.iitararoad metalled right up to the Te Arei road, lluirungi, and will be a boon to the whole district. A special rate has been struck (together with a sum t'loni the (lovci-nment through tlx member for the district, .Mr \V. T. Jennings) to do the work.

.Mv liyslop, of I'cncarrow, is in the midst <■( shearing, but at time of \\ riti"Sa' ni ' n has stopped further progre ,s. I ' JtAkUJX. . So'"® «>»•» of the scarcity of labour m the district may be gathered from the fact that at Wednesday's ineetin" of the Parihaka Road Hoard, tenders \\;'ie invited for four small contracts, but there were only two tenders run ceived, one for each of two jobs. Other contracts in the district are a'iso delayed for the want of men.

.\lr Woodcsee, creamery manager ior Ihe trown Dairy Company at ilototi, met with an accident that might have been serious. Ji o W as driving lio.ne troni the factory, fortunatelv Willi a load of empty when .sonnet the ham™ broke, and the shafts went up in the air, precipitating him among tilt! calls, from which he had dillieiilly in extricating himself The h-nve, hmvever, was a quiet one, and rt'itn assistance the cart was righted, lia\ ing Histained no damage. Kor some time past there has been a dangerous hole in tile culvert across the Kiiliui Road, just in front of the uoor oi .Mr Jlughson's draperv cstabiiient and right under his verandah. Ihe hole was covered at first with a la repacking case, but it has gradually increased until the packing case has subsided inside and is disappearinj" tioiu \ ie\v. Residents here arc wondering when the Eginont County Council are going to attend to the matter.