DISTRICT NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 28 June 1918, Page 3

DISTRICT NEWS.

PUKENGAHU. (From Our Own Correspondent.) All farming operations have been practically at a standstill during the last fortnight owing tw the continuous rain, but fortunately for the stock the weather has been very mild and the grass has made considerable growth, consequently all stock are looking well. Mr Browning, of this valley, is establishing a herd of registered Shorthorns of the milking strain, headed by a bull toed direct from imported stock of the best strain of blood south of the line. His enterprise, it is hoped, will prove a financial gucess, and it should confer a great benefit on the district. The fortnightly euchre parties and dance held in the schoolhouse are being well attended and help to telieve the monotony of the long winter evenings occasionally. Not far from Eltham, a few evenings back a party tried the experiment of laying down a tarred macadam surface on an alien who calls himself a Schwiss. The method employed was, lie was first stripped, coated with tar then a layer of sand and finally immersed in a creek. But it could not be called a permanent success as he now shows little trace of the sand or tar, the circumstances that led to the tarring being that the alien was boasting what he intended to do with his employer's wife when his employer had to leave to enter on his military duties. What I would like to know is when the Government intend to deal with the alien clement in Taranaki, as it is high time something was being done, as so many settlers are being called in the ballot and have to leave their wife and children at the mercy of brutes like the aforementioned, and the one whose case was recently made public at Manaia. If the question is dallied with much longer, in the present half-hearted manner, something serious will happen.