DISTRICT NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 April 1919, Page 3

DISTRICT NEWS.

WAI-TOI-TOI NOTES. (From Our Own Correspondent.) The annual meeting of householders was held on Monday evening last. There was a fair attendance and the following were elected as a committee for the ensuing year: Messrs W. Taylor, J. Phillips, it. (Sutton, J. Cannon and J. Spun-. At a meeting of the new committee Mr Taylor was elected chairman and Mr J. Spurr secretary. Several matters in connection with the school were discussed, and it was decided that, as the furze and blackberry had been grubbed, to clear up all the rubbish and sow seed where necessary. A working bee is to be formed for the purpose, and several othc-r matters requiring attention will be dealt with at the same l ime.

At the usual monthly meeting of directors of the Wai-toi-toi Dairy Company, held on Wednesday last, tlie question of reconstructing the freezing chamber was gone into at length The present chamber has been giving considerable trouble during tlie season, and Mr Berry, engineering expert, had been up and inspected It thoroughly; he had given a report on the matter, together with an estimate of the probable cost. It was eventually agreed that Mr Berry be asked to give a price to do the whole of the work.

11l conversation with Mr W. Taylor, the popular manager of the factory, he informed me that though the milk supply was decreasing he wa3 still taking 100 gallons per day more than at the same period last season, in spite of the fact that there were considerably less cows being milked than there were in 1918. The test for the month ending March was 4.3 as compared with 4.1 for the corresponding month of last year. It may be mentioned that this factory is one of the few that have paid out every month during the war. As the company is comparatively a new one and not overburdened with too large a milk supply, this speaks well for the manner in which the affairs have been managed. They are paying 1/6 per lb for the butterfat and have been doing ,o for some months past.

Mr Johnson, agricultural instructor'for the Taranaki Education Board, passed through here last week on a walking tour in company with Mr Moss, solicitor, of Stratford. The former gentleman expressed himself highly pleased with the land on this coast, and paid the manager and stair of the factory a tribute of praise for the extremely neat and clean manner in which the factory and surroundings were kept. It is understood that there is probability of a Presbyterian Church being erected in Urenui, as a canvass of the district for support has proved most successful.

The Rev. Perkins gave an interesting addresß in the schoolroom on Friday evening last. There was a very good attendance of both parents and children, and the reverend gentleman's remarks were listened to most attentively Mr Perkins intends giving an address every fortnight, and no doubt his visits will be much appreciated. A long-felt want in Urenui and the neighborhood has been supplied by Mr Reynolds, of Waitara, who has re-open-ed the butchery foimerly occupied by the late Mr C. H. Howe and carried on by that gentleman successfully for a great many years. As anyone requiring meat had to send to Waitara and get it by mail car or bus, Mr Reynolds' enterprise will, no doubt, meet with the support it deserves.