DISTRICT NEWS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 276, 12 April 1911, Page 7

DISTRICT NEWS

WAREA. (From Our Own Correspondent). The milk supply at the local dairy factory is decreasing almost every day. The supply is now down to about seven hundred gallons a day. The tests aro moving upwards, the highe&t at the factory being this week's 4.8, average 4.4. The milk supply at the Newall road creamery is holding up well now since the fires. The quantity of milk is a little more than than that at the main factory. The grass since the fires has grown wonderfully, and it is as green as it could look, for the bush settlers have had any amount of rain. The contractor (Mr. A. C. Vincent) finishsd his contract of crushing sixteen hundred yards of stone, and delivered it on the main road last week, just a few minutes before the rain set in, and the metal has since been blinded with pit gravel. The ratepayers are pleased to see that the Egmont County has got a foreman who thoroughly understands the art of road-making. Seven men employed at Messrs. Ducker Bros.' took a trip to the top of Mt, Egmont last Sunday, and spent a very enjoyable time. They left the mill on Saturday afternoon and reached the Kahui road home just about dark, and camped there for the night, starting on their journey up the mountain early on Sunday morning. After reaching the top, they claim to have done what very few others have done, viz., boiled a billy and had a hot cup of tea on the top. Each one carried a stick of wood with which to make the fire. After having a drink and a snack to eat, they wandered around and saw all that/ could be seen. They returned safely. Caterpillars are very bad here this year. They are destroying all the crops of corn that are about. They have never been known to be so bad as they are (his year. Messrs. Hart and Penwarden, builders, are pushing along with the erection of Mr. J. Lawn's new house on the Warea road, and it ought to be completed very soon. Mr. T. W. Raven, of the Newall road, is erecting a new house, the old one having been destroyed by the re--1 cent bush fires.