DISTRICT NEWS
OAIATA. (From Our Own Correspondent). A bazaar in aid of the Church of England, funds is to be held on the Bth and tlth of this month at the Omata Hall. The ladies of the district have been holding weekly sewing bees for sevcra' months past, preparing articles for sale. 1 have been privileged to see some 01 tile many things that will be offered to the public, and can assure would-be parchasers that they will find a huge variety of both useful and ornamental articles, which, I am told, will ue marked at very reasonable figures. Fishpond, bran tub, Christmas tree, naildriving competition, and other attractions too numerous to mei tion are " o be used for the purpose of catching the nimble sixpence or the tardy penny. Mr. 1). Hooker is erecting a u '.' nuse, of which the frame is now up, .i.i.l he hopes to be in it by Christ nn. I am sorry to say that Mrs. li. O'Dowda, who has been unwell for some time, had yesterday to be taken to the hospital for treatment. Her many friends will, I know, unite with me in hoping that she may soon be well enough to return to her home. Threepence a pound dead weight is the price the fanners are now allured for Un'ir pigs, lias bacon fallen in price, or is it that the factory proprietors nave lowered the price for pork, knowing that most of the farmers nave killed the'rr calve- and gone in for pigs and cannot replace the, calves till next year! How long is (lie farmer going to stand being at the mercy of any combination that comes along? Will he never awake to the fact that united—as every other body of men, sine the farmer, is—he is master of the situation'; Combined he is in a position to say, "You must pay so much for this or thai, product," and not be compelled to take the price offered, whether remunerative or otherwise.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 254, 2 December 1909, Page 1
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