DISTRICT NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 139, 8 December 1911, Page 6

DISTRICT NEWS.

EGMC&T VILLAGE. (Fr( m Our Own Correspondents). The milk supply is still low, and the rough weather still continues. The kitchen gardens suffer just as much as anything else, and unless we get more seasonable weather than we are at present having vegetables of all descriptions will be very late in maturing. Local fishermen are having a very poor time, as there is far too much water in the streams. However, some fair catches have been made, and all are hoping for better times later on. "Everything comes to him who waits"—that is, if he waits long enough. MAKETAWA. The weather is still very unfavorable to the dairy industry, and, although we get an odd fine day, taken as a whole, the hard S.W. wind, with very hard rain and hail showers is causing fanners much anxiety as to tlieir winter crops. lam informed that several who have sown maize a while back are re-sowing, owing to the seed having rotted in the ground. Ploughing is being interfered with. A son of Mr. Albert Dodunski was seriously burned about the face and chest through an accident with a methylated spirit lamp a little while baok, and the little fellow- was in a dangerous condition for a few days owing to shock. Enquiries show that the little cMp is now progressing favorably under the care of Dr. Gault. The contractor for the boulders for repairing Durham-road West is already on the job, notwithstanding the beastly weather, and apparently will not be | long in getting out the amount required —3OO yards. The monthly meeting of the Durham School Committee was held on Monday evening last. There were present: Messrs P. Hodges (in the chair), J. Bridgeman, J. Comey and J. B. Simpson. There was nothing of extreme import l ance to consider, with the exception of concreting between the shelter shed and school, the Education Board having notified a subsidy towards the work of £3. The teacher's monthly report was of no serious import, and the matter of prize money and concert supplies were left in the hands of the secretary. The chairman was authorised to make arrangements for the supply of shingle for concrete work, and he stated the weather had had a lot to do with the question of removal, etc., of the outoffices. and mentioned that, after all, it would be best to wait until the Christmas holidays to get this and the concreting done. The small area of ground attached to the school prevents the children from having a school garden, and it is to be hoped something will be done in the future to alter this, as there is no doubt the study of the action of certain manures on different kinds of crops would prove an interesting study for farmers' children.