PONGAKAWA NOTES.

Te Puke Times, Volume II, Issue II, 4 July 1913, Page 3

PONGAKAWA NOTES.

(From our Own Correspondent.) The weather is generally admitted to be the topic with which an Englishman opens a conversation, and I will commence by saying that it has, for the winter, been exceptionally fine—bright days, frosty nights, and little or no rainfall. The climate for this time of the year has been all that could be desired, although a little more rain would certainly have been beneficial. For the past 12 months the rainfall has been very slight, and the roads, consequently are in very good order, as the drivers of the numerous motor cars that 'fly up and down the Coast can testify, Feed has become somewhat scarce, and the turnips are not eating out as heavily as anticipated. Stacks of hay are now being utilised. This is the slack period for dairy farmers, and no one begrudges thenxa little leisure for recreation after their arduous labors. Quite a number it 3 indulging in the winter pastimes of golf and football, whilst several shooting enthusiasts have thrown in their lot with the Paengaroa Gun Club. A school concert is shortly to be held here, and there is every probability of it being well patronised. Much satisfaction is expressed locally at the speedy manner in which the railway construction works are being pushed on to Paengaroa. Another year's progress should see the line' well within our own district. Some indignation is felt at the attempt on the part of the Tauranga people to induce the Government to spend a la*'g3 sum in bridging their harbor when the expenditure of a similar sum in pushing the line down the Coast would not only be more beneficial to the district, but to Tauranga itself. It should be to the interast of Tauranga to work to secure the trade of the country districts, which other harbors down the Coast will undoubtedly try to capture.