DISTRICT NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 February 1922, Page 2

DISTRICT NEWS.

URUTI. (Fra/n Our Own Correspondent.) An extraordinary meeting of shareholders was held in the Uruti Hall on Tuesday, January’ 31, to authorise the erection of the butter factory here. The position is peculiar, as the factory |iurnt in the late fire was a butter and cheese factory, the cheese portion being added four years ago by seventeen of the suppliers, the Insurance being held by the company as a whole. After considerable discussion, and some opposition, it was decided to erect a butter and cheese factory, tenders to be called alternatively in timber and concrete.

The flood on the morning of Thursday was the largest seen in the Uruti Valley for many years, the road Being blocked with slips through to the Tangitu Valley. The cream suppliers from the Tangitu are unable to get their cream to market till the road is cleared.

The farmers are sufferers, as the flats near the Uruti and Mimi rivers ar© covered with a heavy layer of silt. The cows, in consequence, will go short, and the milk yield will suffer accordingly, nutter at 7s 2d a pound not being a payable business at the best of terms.

The.approach of the bridge to the Government quarry has been washed away, so tl:e lorries metalling the Mount Messenger road will have to cease operations till repairs are effected, which is unfortunate, as they can only work in the summer months. The flood was within a few inches of the floor of the Post Office. One family had tv leave their tome till the flood subsided.