DISTRICT NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 193, 23 January 1915, Page 7

DISTRICT NEWS.

MANAIA. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Store and fat cattle are a little easier. The works at Patea and Waitara are pretty well blocked 011 account of insufficient space and scarcity of ships. All dams and springs are about dry, and the rivers are lower now than for years past. Grass is plentiful, hay well saved, and turnip crops are looking splendid. Some dairymen are starting to feed out their soft turnip crops already. Cheese is being shipped from Taranaki very much greener than before. Tt is a case of "get it away as soon as possible," as one never knows what is coming next, with the tremendous war going on. Several owners of milking herds from 40 to 100 cows are looking forward to taking from £22 to C 2.*) per cow this season. Mr. .T. J. Paterson holds the record in this locality for the number of cows milked 011 his farms. Roughly, his sharemilkers are milking 1000 tows for him. The Kaupokonui Company paid out to suppliers for December milk £16.400, at Is per lb. for butter-fat. A good few buyers for store bullocks and store sheep are operating in Wairarapa and Hawke's Bay districts, and several lines are on the way to Taranaki. Headers of the News in this district will be sorry to hear that Mr. S. J. Maekay's boy has had to undergo another operation to his leg, caused through footballing. Keen speculation is going 011 in Maori land.?, in anticipation of the freehold, and aggregation is the order of the day. Several moneyed men arc mopping up all the West Coast leases they can get. Rumour says one well-known factory manager is entering the State Dairy Division next season. His place will lie hard to fill, as he has stopped longer than any of his predecessors as manager, and filled the bill to perfect-ion.