PAHIATUA NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9716, 11 February 1910, Page 6

PAHIATUA NEWS.

(From Our Resident Reporter}. Thursday. The only accident that happened at the A. and P. Show on th2 racecourse yesterday was in the big Steeplechase Leaping Competition, I when Lady Ona, who was ridden by Mr Stan. Whyte, crossed her legs when nearing the brush fence, causing Mr Whyte to fall on his head, sustaining a silght concussion of the brain. i)r Dawson attended the sufferer, and on inquiry this afternoon Mr Whyte is still unable to leave town, but is improving considerably. It is rather a sad coincidence that Mr Whyte's father, Captain Whyte, was the gentleman who convened the first meeting in March last for the purpose of forming the Association. The Kaltawa Rifles will hold a parade and class-firing on Saturday next. Miss J Stewart, of Konini, was the rider of Mr W. Howard Booth's Brown Stout, who was successful in carrying off first honours in the ladies' hacks at the show yesterday. The huge attendance at the initial show yesterday, and the general support accorded the Society, proves that a show should have been held in Pahiatua several years back. However, the residents- have now awakened to the fact that they are living in the midst of a splendid dairying and sheep fattening district, and no doubt these classes will be added to next year, while the horse entries this year left nothing to be desired. Mr and Mr= Quin lan, who are leaving Mangatainoka shortly, are to

be tendered a farewell social at an ; early date. i As showing the difference in land even in the Bush district, a farmer living not twenty miles from Pahiatua pointed out to me to day a plot of 30 acres, which wintered 160 young ewes and summered the lambs as well, during the 190S-09 season, while land less than ten chains distant would not winter more than 12 to 2 sheep per acre. It was rather a pity that the A, and P.. Society did not apply to the Railway Department for excursion fares for yesterday's show, as a Masterton resident informed me last evening that quite a number of people did not make the trip to their being no excursion fares. It was rather a fortunate thing for the residents of Konini that a plot of twenty acres of ploughed land was the means of arresting log fires recently, which were making rapid strides for Konini from the Mangahao Valley. The fires scorched the I root crop in the above plot for tully half a chain in from the fence line. It was mentioned some Time ago that blight was attacking turnip crops in this district, and to day I was informed that a blight of some sort was also attacking a crop of swedes. Swedes are considered as being very hardy, and this seems to be a new development. Mr C. Clifton has been appointed captan of the Pahiatua Fire Brigade, in place of Mr McAlister, who has left the district.