DISTRICT NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 80, 25 August 1914, Page 3

DISTRICT NEWS.

MAKETAWA. (From Our Own Correspondent). tlior lately, and on all sides fanners are H e have ibeen experiencing grand w<>abusv with logging operations. T'le splendid weather is enabling good work to lie done by fire, whieh makes clearing, etc-., a great deal lighter. ■J hear that ilr. I''. Dodunski lias sold I his dairy he rd, and, if the report is torrect, X presume the Durham creamery will lose a big supplier A settler living adjacent to the Mountain Keserve recently found on rounding up his stack, some of which had got in tile reserve, that one had been slaughtered and the two hindquarters taken. I understand that a reward iu offered for information as to the perpetrators. Master A. Simpson, while delivering t'he News on Friday last, had a narrow escape from a serious accident, his pony dropping dead while being ridden up the Durham road. 'Messrs Ollicer and Co. are having a large block (200 acres, 1 understand) of bush felled this year on their sectiou on tiie top of Norfolk road. A party of bushmen are already at work, and good progress is being made. A team of bullocks lias for a considerable time been at Work on various sections, on the Durham road in logging operations. Mr. F. Hodges is busy preparing for the team, which in a short time makes a vast alteration in the appearance of a paddock regarding the removal of logs and stumps, whieh, under other conditions, would entail very hcaw work

Tlie suppliers of tin: Make! awn factory have donated a box of butter per week to the Patriotic Fund, and 111.my suppliers think they should he exempt from furtiier contribution in cash. When one analyses the argument it sefin.-. right, for each man will, if the war is prolonged, contribute some thing over X2 per man. However, I hope to we l)u.'liain road doing something towards the .CUIOO target fixed l>y the l.'iglewood committee. The war, of course, overshadows everything, and it is comical to hear expi'esI sinus of opinion as to what is to become of us "if"' Oermany wins. The Xews is anxiously looked for daily as to progress of events. .Surely after this the Taraliaki farmer can recognise the far-sight-edness shown by Sir .1. (I. Ward in presenting the Dreadnought, and should in in future also recognise tlie importance of using all Tiritish-made rcquirenicnls. Inspector Wle/tter held the annual examination of the Durham School on the 7th, and I understand that a very satisfactory report should be forthcoming. A well-known resident on Durham road in very much hurt because it has been circulated, in the Tnglewood district that lie lias openly given vent, to expressions antagonistic to the l'ritish. It seems a great pity that "men" have nothing better to do than put treasonable savings into another man's mouth, .1 nil it'is a poor kind of a joke Threatening to do personal injury and also injury to propevtv doesn't seem a lirithh method either, and there is no wonder tlie resident took drastic methods to right himself in the eyes of his fellow-set-tler*. A man. though of foreign parentage, who puts in years out oi a 111" of 3 vcars siiouhl truly claim to he a New Xealander.