DISTRICT NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 September 1915, Page 3

DISTRICT NEWS.

PUNIHO ROAD. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Spring is with us again. With the beautiful warm rains one can almost see the grass growing. Cows are coming in fast, and the factories are in full swing, and there is every prospect of a good season ahead.

Mr. A. Wells has sold his farm and is leaving shortly for the Nelson district, where he has bought a fruit farm. He will be greatly missed, he being one of the oldest settlers on the road, and we wish him success in his new venture. We have a daily mail service, which has proved a boon to the settlers. Just imagine getting the Daily News by midday, when only a few years ago we were, at times, practically isolated! Hie Puniho Road is now under the control of the Taranaki County Council, which is also a step forward. A meeting of suppliers of the Royal Arms Cheese Factories, on the Puniho Road, was held in the upper factory on September 18, to decide whether the season s output should be placed on open consignment or sold. Mr. W. A. Thomas was voted to the chair. After a lengthy discussion, it was decided to sell the new output at 7 l-16d per lb, which will give the supplier Ftjd per lb for butter-fat supplied.

There was a long discussion over an agreement. It appears to me that on the opening of the factory, some two years ago, some of the suppliers wanted a typed agreement under which all milk should be supplied, and a typed agreement they got, consisting of many clauses, which was duly signed and registered. It is now alleged, after a lapse of two years, that an additional clause appears in the agreement, written with pen and ink, but how this clause got there Is quite a mystery. Hence the discussion. However, no action was taken.