PAHIATUA NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10017, 13 April 1910, Page 6

PAHIATUA NEWS.

Own Correspondent. Tuesday* Messrs A. Ro3S and W. Tosswiil have withdrawn their nominations for the Presidency of the Pahiatua Agricultural Association. Mr J. C Cooper has, therefore, been elected President fox- the ensuing year, Mr C. H. Dickens has sold his farm of 305 acres to Mr Peter Vaiois at a satisfactory figure. The sale was efFected through the agency of Messrs W. I. Husband and Co. The Baliance Dairy Company will pay out to-morrow about £5,000 for th2 month. The.v are paying at the rate of 10' d per lb for butter fat. Mr J. Pedersen, the Government expert, has Deen visiting the factory giving expert advice re the installation of pasteurisers which are about to be installed in all the Company's factories.

Mr J. P. Gird wood, of jyjangabao, has leased his farm with a purchasing clause to Mr M. Alpass. Mr Aipass takes over the farm at the beginning of Jtha season.

I understand that the reisdents of Dew's Koad are experiencing some difficulty in getting a sufficient number of ratepayers to agree to raising a special loan to meet the grant which was placed on the estimates last year, for the deviation of the JMakuri-Pabiatua Bond.

It is rather a pity that the parochial system of voting monies for necessary works, is heing adop' ted by local bodies. Surely both of these works are sf sufficient importance to warrant the local body in finding the necessary addition to Government money out of their General funds, instead of adhering to a hard and fast rule of allocating expenditure to separate undertakings, consequently entailing the raising of special loans by small communities which should in common .fairne3s be borne by the whole of the ratepayers, and although in many instances the half of the money has been provided by the Government, through this it has been deiayed or lost altogether. A similar difficulty is ako being experienced in connection with the erection a bridge across the Makuri stream at Te t Aupapa, for which a Government grant of £6OO was. given last year. The Konini Football Club intend holding their annual social in the Konini Hall "on Wednesday, 20i h inst. The sale is reported through the agency of Messrs E. B. Hare and Co. of Mr Carey's dairy farm and stock at Ballance to Mr Tanner, of Waikafo. THE STOCK MARKET. Messrs Abraham and Williams report as follows:—At Woodville, on Monday, 11th instant, we had a good yarding of both sheep and cattle, the latter comprising mostly weaners which sold well. We made a clearance of everything yarded at goad values. At Pahiatua, on Tuesday, 12th instant, we yarded over 4,0U0

shesp, -a large number of which were

wethers for which we had stro •>• competition, all classes of sheep nr> t a good sale, and we cleared the whole j yarding with the exception of os.i! I pen of aged ewes. Cattle wtic yarded up to advertised numbers ai d sold at late rates. Quotatons:— At Wcodville 12a Id; s.m. ewes in lamb, 8s 6d ; empty ewes. 6s Sd; medium lambs, 6s 2d to 6s 6d; small lamb?, 4s 6d; springing heifers, £5 12s 6d; heifers in calf. £3 7s to £4 2s 6d; good weaners up to 345; others, 19s to 275. At Pahiatua—2 and 4-tooth wethers in good condition, lis lOd to 13s; fair wethers, 10s 2d to lis: GmF.ll wether 3, 9s 3d to 9s 8d; good sound-mouth ewes in lamb, 12s to 12a 4d; others, 7s lid to 93 6d; f.rn. ewes in lamb, 5s 9dto7s6cl; empty ewes, forward, 8s to 9s 3d; store ewes, 4s to ss; good lambs, 6s 9d to 7s Bdi medium lambs, 5s 3d to 5s 9d; cull lambs, 3s to 4s 3d; fat cows, prime, £5 Is to £6; others, £4 ss; store cows, 355; empty cowr, £3 2s 6d; 15-month steers, £2 10s; springing heifers, £4 lis to £5 ss; wraners, 35s 6d.

Messrs Dalgety and Co., Ltd., report cn their Pahiatua sale as follows: We offered a fair yarding of both sheep and cattle to an average attendance of the public. Wethers and lambs were in good demand, and sold at an advance on late ratce. We quote Good lambs from 6s ■> to Si sd;.,wethers. lid; eiriyty forward ewes, 7s to 8s 6d free of lamb; others to ss. Cattle. —Fat cows to £5; store cows, £3 2s to £3 10s 6d. Our next sale will be held in the F.F.A. yards on the 19th inst.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report un their wevidy sale held to-day, in Messrs Daigety and Co.'s yards, we had a small yarding of sheep and cattle. No doubt owing to the inclement state of the weather, there was also only a medium attendance oil farmers and buyers. Prices, however, were good and ran ao follows: Aeed ewes, empty, 4s 6d to 6? 6d; 2-tooth wethers, small, 10s 4d; other wethers to 12s Sd; store cows, £2 12s *:' d" 2-year steers, £3 6s to £3 13s; weaners, 20s; bulls, 455.