PAHIATUA NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3075, 21 December 1908, Page 6

PAHIATUA NEWS.

(From Our Resident Reporter). THRIVING CHEESE FACTORY •AT BALLANCE. Saturday. The supply of milk to the Tararua Cheese Factory is steadily increasing, the amount being over 1,000 gallons from ten suppliers. For November the sum of over £SOO was paid out. Or.e supplier received a cheque for £l2O, and he employs no outside labour. One hundred cases of cheese will be sent away next Thursday from the factory. Nearly every farmer at Ballance is busy haymaking, and all report very heavy crops. RAKANUI- NOTES. A resident of Rakanui, informs me that the roads are now in splendid order in that district, and as several contracts for metalling are being proceeded with, they hope that the coming winter will see a great improvement in the state of the roads. The supply of milk to the creamery is greater this season than last and the farmers are well pleased with the prospects before them. Shearing is just about finished, anyone of the freezing companies has already taken away a draft of fat lambs and wethera. Mr H. Vile has been busy with his carrying plant taking the wool from these parts to the Pahiatua Railwav Station. STOCK MARKET. Messrs Mitchell, Griffith and Co., Ltd., report as follows: Pigs, weaners 12s 9d to 16s, small stores 235, stores 24s 6d, empty sows 30s tid, lambs 12s 6d, horses, hack £3, trap horse £ls 15s, poultry, hens Is 3d to Is 9d, ducks 2s to 2s 6d, geese 3s 6d, young turkeys 3s 9d each, farm produce, old potatoes 8s 6d per cwt., new 14s6dcwt., onions l|d lb, oats 3s, fowl wheat 2s 9d to 5s 6d, i rice ipeal 13s, barley meal 14s, separator butter lid per lb, peas •10d per peck, cabbage Is 3d per dozen, fruit, gooseberries 2d per lb, red currants 3d per lb. A large consignment of poultry and produce came forward, and met with readj* sale. Pigs are still in good demand, prices being a little easier.

Sir Joseph Ward has been invited to attend the Mangatainoka Sports on Boxing Day, and open the new grandstand. No pains are being spared by the committee to'eclipse all previous meetings and special attention is being paid to the Domain Grounds. Train arrangements have also been made to suit people going to and from the sports. In connection with the Education Board's scholarships, four candidates for the Civil Service, and one for the Senior free place, are being examined at the District High School, the Rev. Chalmers Mill and Mrs A. Hughan supervising.

The cantata "Bethlehem" given in St. Paul's Church last evening, was a distinct success, and extra seating accommodation was required. The choir, some 40 in number, rendered the choruses in fine style, and the solos and duets were also good, the one sung by Miss N. Norrell, and Mr F. G. Milne, quite captivating the audience. The orchestra. Messrp C. Bluett, senr., and Ashcroft (violin), Ashley Bluett (violin), C. Bluett (bass) and Clough (organ) was much appreciated, and the conductor (Mr C. Mills) has every reason to be proud of the performance given. The purse presented to Mr J. C. Cooper on Thursday evening last contained about 200 sovereigns. A special meeting of the Wellington Land Board will tie held at Wellington on Monday and Tuesday next, 21st and U2nd inst. Mr A. Reese, who is a member of the Board, left for the Empire City this afternoon. Messrs Mitchell and Griffith will hold their weekly sale at the Mart on Thursday next, as Saturday, the ordinary sale day, is a public holiday. Mr E. Wagstaff informed me this afternoon, that he and Messrs Martin and McGovern, were going to discontinue supplying the Borough with milk after thel6th of January, 1909, unless the drastic regulations required by the Health Department are modified before that date. Mr Ross, M.P., for Pahiatua, was in town to-day, and was interviewed on the subject, and he will bring the matter under the notice of the Minister.