KAITUNA NOTES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9992, 12 March 1910, Page 5

KAITUNA NOTES.

Special to the Age. The annual picnic in connection vfith the Kaituna School was held at the schoolgrounds yesterJay. Although the morning was damp and anything but inviting, yet there was a large asssmblage of parents and chil'iren present and the function was a mostenjoyable one. Before the prizes were distributed, the Chairman of the School Committee, Mr W. L. Falconer, made a few congratulatory remarks upon the creditable manner in which the teacher, Miss Kelliher, had taught the children during the past year. He then presented each child attending the school with a prize, and two special prizes, une for sewing and the other for arithmetic, pr«sented by the teacher, were won by Violet Carlson and George Dagg," respectively. A dance was held in the schoolroom in the evening. Farmers in this district, remarking on the season experienced, consider the district looking better than they have noticed it in former years.

Two residents, who .have farmed land in this district for many years, | Mr Deal and Mr Johnson, have dis- ; posed of their properties. Repairs have recently been effected to the headworks of the Caiter-ton-Taratahi water-race works. A considerable number of root crops are to be seen about, and Mr Falconer has a considerable area in turnips. Several acres of potatoes, looking in fine condition are also to be seen on the same farm. The manager of the cheese factory, Mr F, E. Groube, informed me that the daily milk supply this season was greater than that of any previous Eeasoi?, . about l,ooolbs more roilk being delivered, the amount of tlifi Sotfesponding period of last year. Up to the present the quantity of j cheese manufactured already 6'xceeds j that of the whole output of former y&ars, Irt I&08-09 season twelve tons more cheese was made than in the'l9o7-08 season, and the output this ye»r .will considerably exceed this amount. The average test at the factory runs about 3.9, the lowest being 3.7, and the high' est 4.4. So tar this year the grade notes have all read first class. The bulk of the cheese is shipped Home but no returns for this season's oatput have so far come to hand.