DISTRICT NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 134, 30 October 1914, Page 3

DISTRICT NEWS.

OPUNAKE. r.,..v; omiay fe the day appointed for rethe Fmnv. o ?'^ 4 ' 011 ' for cail(J >dates for v-i i ? Count y Council. A auiet method of raising interest in the election is {joiing on m the Rahotu end of he.wunty. A "ticket" has been J ■t™ j v 'i Z "v "J 01 "® working of two local bodice, by merging the PariPnnn J int ° tllC EgJMmt nht™i S' lf tlle "^ ickct Mien' am seats. More effective woTkin<r of e countys road-making plant is also ??° ot t 1 , 10 ' ,lanks - Wis likely that Messrs Maxwell, P. Wfllcox, R. iW. i. -Mailing, ~„j Bm-goss will contest ;,..V K^ ot , u ndmg seats. The candin"n \r' lu come out for 0e » ridrjn larquhar, Hurst, Camp- ,■!].' McNeill, Woolford, Itadtliffe ami 11. Mutno. There i s not likely n ii K wn <H«late opposing Mr W. C Dudley for ihe Opunake riding. the Opunuko Caledonian. Society has ocen re-formed and sports will be held on Boxing Day. The Rev. T. Jfussell, 8.A., will occupy llie pulpit in the Presbyterian Church

Mr Croeki-ti, stock inspector, has reigned from the position of resident nspector. Mr lomlineoil is duing the work av present It is intended u> give Mr Orockett a "farewell." 6

RAilOTl*. A met tin? of the Anglican Church Committee was held last week, when it was decided to erect a fence round the church grounds of concrete posts, with I same material. Rain la very badlv needed in the dktlict feed being very scarce. The milk supply is very much below that of last Reason, only fivs vats being reached jet at the factory. If rain does not soon come the milk will be on the decline.

The pasteurising plant installed at the factory is doing verv satisfactory work Hie choose scoring Hl'/, po iLt s at the grading stores. The new schoolmaster, Mr Manning, has taken up his duties, and new scholars seem to he arriving every day. I'or some time past considerable dissatisfaction has existed amongst -the ratepayers m the Rahotu riding of the iigmont county at tho way in which the contracts were managed last summer. It is alleged that not only was the average output of the crusher something about twenty yards per day less, while ■he i xpenses were running on, but that ihe ■•finish'' on the roads was not deterving of the proverbial medals. This dissatisfaction reached its climax with •the decision of the majority of the Council to build new offices at. Opunake at -jl time when the main road at Opim waa in an impassable condition. Of course certain ratepayers would have stopped this building scheme until the ratepayers had been consulted. It is reported that tenders were accepted lor the building while a. notice of motion to rescind the building resolution was not dealt with. But, anyhow, the Rahotu iriding ratepayers have got an idea ilian an almost complete change is necessary, and last week picked fivo settlers to represent them in the next Council, none of whom are new chums on public bodies, every one of them having served on both County Councils and Koad Board. Those selected were Messrs. M. Fleming, T. Harvey, M. J. Mcllevno'ds, W, it. Wright, and J. y oung. A run -ilhrough the district shows the great popularity of the Il.olsteins, calf '■locks being full of little black and whiles.- Some i>;-aple are going in for Shorthorns, thinking tlicy will have better bullocks, overlooking the facithat many of the heifers are 'poor milkers. This a settler here recently found out by trying a beautiful looking roan heifer, wliioih, after calving, did not give enough milk to feed it'i calf. Any one who thinks that they are going to drop on the milking Shorthorn ought <o 'bear in mind what a Government. official stated last year to a crowd of settlers at Palmerston. He said: "I have been connected with every Shorthorn bull imported 'l>v the Government,, many of them regardless of expense, and the whole lot of them did not leave ten heifers worth milking."