DISTRICT NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 122, 1 September 1910, Page 7

DISTRICT NEWS.

(From Our Own Correspondents.) TIKiORANGI. With the exception of the cold snap experienced on 'Sunday, the winter has been very mild, and with the cows coming to profit early, everything points to a good dairying season. The prospective prices for dairy produce are being eagerly discussed, and the general opinion is expressed that they will be good. Indeed it is fondly anticipated in some quarters that the efforts now ibeing made will result in such a combination that farmers will ibe able to practically fix the price, and Tooley street must pay up. It is only the shocking conservatism of the British merchant that lias so long delayed the Utopian scheme, but to those that can see fchem there are unmistakable signs that point to the fact that in a very short time the London produce trade will :be entirely managed from this end, and the dairy company director who takes a run home to the Old 'Country to ■see that the trade is being carried on in a proper manner will doubtless be the New Zealander to whom Macaulay alluded in- ihis famous allegory. ' Do coming events always cast their shadows ibefore? This is a question that the residents of the Waitara harbor district should carefully think over. The discussion at the last meeting of tlie Waitara Harbor Board gives food for reflection, and it will be certainly the irony of fate if we have severed from New Plymouth in order to be rated for Waitara.

The concert in aid of the local library is fixed for September 15, and a firstclass programme is being prepared. It is stated that Mr. Jas. Boddie, of Te Kuiti, is to be the Opposition candidate for Taumarunui at next election, but Mr. Jennings is, I imagine, safe; for, unlike so many Government memibers, he does not talk freehold and vote leasehold.

WAIONGONA. A concert was held in the schoolroom last Friday evening to mark the closing for the season of the meetings of the Debating Society. Notwithstanding the threatening nature of the weather, the attendance was good, and a varied and interesting programme was submitted. Distinctive features were a couple of farces ("Doing the Grand" and "Irish Justice") presented (by members of the Debating Society. The vice-chairman, Mr. R. Kilpatrick, occupied the chair for the evening. At the conclusion of the programme, supper was handed round by the ladies, after which the room was cleared for dancing. The proceeds of the evening's entertainment will be devoted to the Children's Excursion Fund.