INGLEWOOD.

Taranaki Daily News, 28 September 1921, Page 6

INGLEWOOD.

(From Our Own Correspondent.) Sept. 27. The meeting of the Inglewood Beautifying and Improvement Society which was called for Monday night lapsed for want of attendance. However, a working bee is to be held in the reserve on Thursday, the 29th inst., when opportunity will be taken to fix a date for a gathering of the members to discuss financial and other matters of importance. Last week Sequah held three meetings in the Parish Hall, which was well attended. Amongst those he treated were two very well-known residents, Mr. J. Corney, of Durham Road, and Mr. Geoge Bancroft, of Inglewood, both of whom have evidently benefited by the treatment they received. Whether the improvement they now experience will be permanent or not depends, the lecturer told them, to a great extent on themselves and their persistence in following the directions given them. For Saturday’s mart sale by Newton King, Ltd., there was the usual large attendance. Infant calves made 4/6 for bulls, and from 22s to 31/6 for heifers. Pigs were in good number; weaners made 17s 6d, slips 22s 6d to 24s 6d, small stores 29s to 32s 6d, better size 35s to 48s. A line of totara fence posts sold at Is ]od, small load rata firewood Ils; ducks 3s 3d to 3s 6d, hens 2s to 3s 9d; apples 12s 6d per case. The demand for pigs was decidedly not so keen as it has been, which is explained by farmers to be on account of the uncertainty at the present time of the intentions of some of the factory companies in regard to the output for the coming season. Milkers say if the factory they supply is going in for casein they will have nothing to feed pigs on, and if for cheese, then only whey, but if for butter straight out, they can stock up with pigs on the certainty of getting their skim milk to feed them on. They also say that the sooner this state of uneestainty ceases the better they will be pleased. A fact noticeable in connection with the dairying industry in the district this year is the increase in the number of settlers adopting the home separating system, a movement which was foretold hy the late Mr. E. Vickers, of Inglewood, when the present dairy factory companies were first starting here. Farmers are beginning to realise that it has many adv&nt-gesjto recommend it..