PAHIATUA NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9670, 18 December 1909, Page 6

PAHIATUA NEWS.

(From Oar Resident Reporter). Thursday. The stuck sales held by the three firms operating in this district, in the Mangahao ioad yards, on Tuesday next, will be the last stock sales this season. Several hacks, harness and draught horses will be offered at the "Mart" to-morrow afternoon; also pigs, poultry, produce and a consignment of fruit. A meeting of the Woodville Horticultural Society will be held at Woodville this evening to make arrangements for the forthcoming Show, During the Christmas holidays the circulating library in connection with the Public library will be closed from December 24th inst. until January 3rd inst., both days inclusive. Upwards of £7OO will be paid out to-morrow by the Makuri-Pongaroa Dairy Company to milk suppliers. A similar amount was paid out the other day by the Mangarama Cheese actory for mil* supplied during November. It is stated that two and a-half tans of cream is delivered daily to theKonini (Ballancj No. 2) Butter Factory from the Hamua and Hukanui creameries, ihe daily supply of milk at the Hamua Creamery is between 2,600- and 2.700 gallons. Every day complaints are being heard of the inconvenience caused by the recent alterations to the railway time-table. This morning's train irom Cross' Creek waited 48 minutes at Eketahuna. The farmers of this district are, by the lateness of the first Wuirarapa train North, unable to attend the stock sales at Dannevirke or Palmerston North. The secretary of the Ballance Dairy Company informed me to-day that under present arrangements the butter railed away was likely to suffer considerably owing to the long wait it now had from the time it was trucked at Pahiatua until it reached Wellington. The Christmas Day timetable does not seem to be satis • factory either, and several Pahiatua residents who have friends in Masterton complain that they wi 1 not be able to get to Masterton until about tea time. There is strong feeling in this town in regard to the new time-table, and in Napier the arrangements are looked upon with anything but favour.