PAHIATUA NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10000, 22 March 1910, Page 6

PAHIATUA NEWS.

(Own Correspondent)

Monday. The daily supply of milk to the Nireaha Factory is 2,500 pa I lons. Very few potato crops have escaped the blight this year, notwithstanding they have bten well sprayed. Some farmers have cut off the tops with the result that very small tubers have been dug. Carrots and swede turnips are giv!ng good returns. Two or three plots of white Belgian carrots look remarkably good.

Mr F. E. Debreceny, the wellknown auctioneer, has just returned from a business trip to Pongaroa It is about six years since Mr Debreceny left the Pongaroa district, and since then he considers the place has grown by leaps and bounds. Relating the experiences of his first journey out there over sixteen years aero, he being one uf tha original settlers, being settled there before the town of Pongaroa wns surveyed. After a most distresirg journey through dense bush, and over rough bridle tracks, be landed at the survey camp, where he was provided with a bunk and a rough bush meal. Receiving the necessary information from Mr Biggs, the surveyor, he set out next morning to find nis selection, on which place he Was pioneering for ten years. During his s*ay in Pongaroa, he was surprised at the businesslike activity of

tne place. Un all sides were evidences qf prospertiy. The town now boasts of three grocers' establishments, two blacksmiths' forges, and a fully Hedged drapery emporium, and other adjuncts of civilisation which are not usually found in the backblock settlement. In different parts of the district are to be found butter factories and creameries, which have proved a great boon to the farmers with ; n tbeir radii. Mr Debreceny considers that, although the farmers certainly have to put up with inconveniences in the way of transport, there is no land in New Zealand equal to the Pongaroi land, at the present n.arket prices. At a meeting of the sub-committee appointed to consider applications for the position of Huntsman for the Woodlands Hunt Club. Mr Harold T. Mexted was selected from three applicants.

A meeting of the committee of the Pastoral and Agricultural Association was held on Saturday evening. Messrs Westlake, J. D. Wilson, Burgess, Avery, Boyd and Captain Whyte were appointed a sub-committee to confer with the Racing Club on the 22nd inst. re the lease ef six acres of the latter's ground, and also to inspect several properties in the neigh bourhcod and report on their suitability for a permanent showground.