DISTRICT NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 287, 13 May 1915, Page 3

DISTRICT NEWS.

IIURFORD ROAD. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Winter is now upon us, and in consequence the milk at tlie local factory is getting rather low, which necessitates the factory only running every other day. All are keeping their cows in milk as well as possible, owing to the high prices ruling for butter and cheese. The latest sale of the butter factory's bulk butter is Is 5d per pound, and I believe they have been offered an advanced price for a further supply. The cheese suppliers have been offered B'/»d per pound for their cheese, hut declined to sell. The directors of the butter factory are about to instill an up-to-date power butter pounder at a cost of £33. Feed is going to be rather short this winter, as the turnip crop has not come on too well.

The School Committee is starting a series of weekly euchre parties, with a dance to fellow, on alternate nights, the first to be held on May 14. Half the proceeds are to he reserved for a poor and needy fund.

There is a setter amongst us who has sold about two hundred goats to go to the Taihape district, and as he has had to purchase most of them from fiii neighbors he generally has had some rather good times mustering them. Neither fences nor dogs were able to stop some of them when they got going, but as they are the best means of eradicating the, blackberries one can put up with a bit of a tussle with them occasionally.

I mention with deep regret the fatal accident which befel Mr. Will McCorimick, and I am sure Mr. and Mrs. McCormick have the deepest sympathy of all who know them.

There have been a couple of outbreaks of fire on mir road lately. The first was Mr. A. Wood's mltfcing shed, and the fire was canned through the wall igniting from the exhaust pipe of the milking machine engine. Thanks to a good bucket brigade, the fire was got under without doing much damage. Mr. Wood estimated the damage at about £-20. The second fire was at Mr. E. Walsh's house. Here also with the v.rrp of neighbors the homestead was saved, the fire being confined to one room, but Mr. Walsh was rather unfortunate in having let the insurance on his furniture run out a fortnight previous ■Mr. A. Wood received a private telegram last week stating that his brother, Percy, had been wounded at the Dardanelles. We all hope that it is not serious, and that he will soon be at' tfle Turks again. Mrs. Spence also lias a couple of relatives there.