PROVINCIAL NEWS
WAREA. (From Our Own Correspondent.) The weather during the last day or two has been a little on the moist side. We liave been fortunate enough to get a good shower if rain about once a week, which helps the grass and crops along. Local fanners are pleased to hear that there will lie a receiving station for pigs at Stony River. The trouble and expense of taking pigs to Xew Plymouth wero too much, and very few of the farmers would go in for rearing pigs, but now that there is a receiving station being established there should be a goodlynumber of pigs reared. The station is the Christehurch Meat Company's. It guarantees not less than -Id per 'lb, providing farmer* supply all their pigs to them. A meeting of the N.Z.F.U. is to he held in the Warea Hall on Wednesday evening, when the representative of the company will be present, and place his views "before the pig breeders. Potati blight is spreading rapidly in this district. There are very few crops that have escaped. The X.Z.F.f. annual ball will be held on New Year's Eve. »
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 18 December 1907, Page 4
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190PROVINCIAL NEWS Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 18 December 1907, Page 4
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