PAHIATUA NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9571, 18 August 1909, Page 6

PAHIATUA NEWS.

(Prom Our Resident Reporter). Tuesday. The Woodville Cheea Factory recently erected by Mr Reeves, owner of the Mangatainoka Cheese Factory, is to be opened to-morrow (Wednesday). A large number ot residents of Woodville have been invited to attend the ceremony as well as several Mangatainoka residents. ' The annual meeting/ of the Ballanco Dairy Company will be held in Pahiataa on August 30th. There are at present twenty men engaged in clearing 3lipa from the Manawatu Gorge Road, and the road is now passable for horse traffic. Good progress is being made with the erection of the Kaitawa Cheese Factory, and it is expected to be reaiy for receiving milk on September Ist. The Bu3h Districts Agricultural and Past'iral Association met at Woodville last evening, Mr R. E. Be.ittie presiding. The date for the next Show was fixed for January 26th, 1910. *'A letter was read from the Manawatu A.and P. Society, asking the Bush Society to draw up a list of the competent judges of the different classes of stock in their c istrict. A list of wns drawn up. Other routine business was transacted. MrG. H. YorK, who has been a resident of Ballance for several yeard is to be social in the Ballanc «jfffr .1, this evening, when the its will present Mr York with a travelling companion and a beautiful Kaipoi rug. Mr York, who recently so'd his farm to Mr Carey, is making his home in the Auckland district. The quarterly summoned meeting of the Pahiatua Druids will take place on Thursday evening next. As the Recrpation Ground is in a wet and sloppy condition the Management Committee of the Bush Union havt decided to secure a drier ground for the representative match against Poverty Bay on Thursday next. The old ground next to Mr D. Crewe's residence will be used for the occasion. Miss Bessie Smuaton, of Mangatainoka, was married to-day at her father's residence, to Mr Price, of the West Coast, South Island. The Rev. Chalmers- Mill performed the ceremony. I STOCK MARKET. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Lid., report on ther sale to-day in Messrs Dalgety and Co.'s yards as follows:—Owing to the very wet| early morning, no sheep came forward, and cattle were confined to dai'ry sorts. Prices realised were as follows: —Dairy cows £3 17s, £4 9s, £4 lis, £4 12s 6d, £4 16s 6d, store cows 50s, fat cows £3 Is, bulls 60s.