DISTRICT NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 3 November 1916, Page 3

DISTRICT NEWS.

. INANGA-PUKENGAHU. (From Our Own Correspondents,) Some folk are hard to please by the ; comments passed on the weather we \ have had here for the last few weeks. I am sure we have had a sample of every sort the clerk of the weather has j been providing us with during the last decade. Ho has changed it about every r two hours excepting when he has sent \ us a wet day, which he has occasionally varied with a hailstorm thrown in for \ luck. The reflex has been very evident in the quantity of milk supplied to the j creamery, varying in some eases ever t two hundred lbs. a day in individual herds. f By the treatment, meted out tn the meat exporters and exporters of butter j, by those in authority, it seems as if those who have power in regard to levy- , ing taws and fixing prices were Bible \ students of some class, as they appear . to follow on the lines of giving to him f that hath, and taking from him that 3 hath not even that which lie seemeth to have! L Farmers here are not feeling too well e disposed towards having a model dairy j farm at Stratford, and the local dairy d companies footing the bill of costs, as laid down by some speakers at the last meeting over the subject. But as Mr. Dingle sagely remarked: "If every acre of land in the, district could he made to produce lolbs. more butter-fat it would mean a great increase in revenue." If a model poultry farm were also established, and if (?) all the hens in the district could be induced or educated up to laying two eggs a day it would greatly n increase our revenue. It appears to '" many that the extri eggs could he as '■ easily produced by starting a model ■S poultry farm as the additional l.jlbs, of y butter-fat per acre could be produced from having a model dairy farm at f! Stratford, which nearly all the speakers . at late meetings seemed unanimous in t saying it would not pay its own ex- ,. penses. Our folk here want to learn ,] hew to pay a big rent or -i heavy in- , forest and make a profit for ourselves, but would be dubious about following the il( tliods of a non-payimj model farm. ll What with a Jd levy on 'the lb. of butter- '■ fat, and €OOO to patriotic funds, guess i we had better go slow, as the war is a 0 long way from being ended and we may i- have to double all contributions and e levies yet. As there was in the bygone e ages so there is to-day, a little cloud no bigger than a man's hand looming on „ the horizon, but wlule that viewed by , e the ancients gave promise of rain, that 1 on our horizon is composed o f al! th:: • mortgages extended by the Moratorium '* Act, "and the wise will try to save in '" order to make provision to meet the ie storm which will burst over the length s ' and breadth of the country when all the le mortgages so extended shall be liable to in be called up, for, depend upon it. Shylock ts will have his pound of flesh when the law 'd 'again gives him power to foreclose on his t- victims. They that are wise will do u well to thoroughly consider any sclieme, v even for a model' farm before sanctioning it, thus involving a liability that .J will have to be met and continued, even if we have to face a time of depression e " and extra taxation when the war is over. P" The latest. My neighbor had a numB1 her of calves' veils drying. The cat '? eat most and. all its 'milk turned to " .cheese. Consequently he lost all,the kit--3f tens through starvation! "■ MATAU. \- \ A very large meeting of setthts met at the Fchooihouse on the 3Pth to bid y farewell to the teacher (Mrs. Buchanan) l " who is leaving to reside in Waitara, having retired from teaching. A social i- and dance was held. During the inters' val, Mr. Evans, on behalf of the rcsiii dents, made a presentation of a silver ,e flower stand, very handsome in design. ,t He referred to the- kindness and atten- '. tion shown by Mrs. Buchanan to the pupils, and said that the opinion of the ■' residents was that she was the most r popular teacher that had taught in the ■ r Matau School. She would be missed ,l by the Patriotic Fund Committee, for ,r which she has worked very hard, also by ■t the children, whose good friend she aii- ways was, as well as being a good e teacher. The tone of the school children ie had improved wonderfully sinee she took ,-. charge of the school.