OHURA SALE.

Taranaki Daily News, 14 December 1916, Page 7

OHURA SALE.

(By D.J.H.) If your readers wish tc visit farar.aki's baekbloeks I thoroughly recommend them to do the trip to Olmra via Whangamomona. The Tangaraukau fiorge alone is worth it, for one goes through 12-Jfg miles of unsurpassed bush scenery growing on cliffs from SOOit to 1000 ft in height. The scene is .magnificent indeed. A party of us left Stratford on Tuesday night for Whanga. by rail, and started by motor-car and 'ourtland wagfion for Ohura on Wednesday morning to attend Mr. Newton King's stock sale there on Thursday last. The road was dry, and. all arrived safely early iD the afternoon. There are, numerous boarding-houses in Ohura, and we put up at different houses, as the sale on the morrow bad brought in several visitors. The abode at which I put up was fully occupiedeven the bed had occupiers of a most vicious nature.- These agitators didn't seem to annoy my next-room neighbors, as they were noisy even when daylight came in the morning I carefully watched all the lodgers at the breakfast table to see, in sporting phraseology, what, scratching took place, but, bar a honeymoon couple, all at the table looked comfortable. There was. a good yarding of -cattle of very much better quality than from this end. The sale kicked off wiili £l6 for the first pen of V/ 3 to 4-year-old bullocks, and £T3 IBs foi the next pen, and an ex rep. footballer scored. The next pen was a beautiful line of two to "two and a-half-year steers at £l3 Ms;'knocked down tc another visitor. "My word, they vas hot!" exclaimed my left-hand companion, and immediately he would sing out "Vonce again!" at the solicitation of tlie hcrcules yardman. Eventually .one weighty buyer from the Waimate Plains' extinguished the torpedo heavyweight, and put his cross on seventy odd head— We mot at Ohura the Matiere king, So we, gave up trying to torn; a ring. ,Tust bid and bid to our last Frank, Foi King stood the racket and not. the Bank. So we hied away from the vale of Olmra, Where we left a car near-by tc cool her, Amidst Olives and nobs and roads muddy llobbs, We struct. Abraham, Cross and dainty Dick's boss, And steered to Whanga. with Garvey, . the .buyer,. Took Bacon and stronger and wrote out a wire.