DISTRICT NEWS.
I [From Our Own Correspondent'.] MAURiCEVIS-LE WEST. The humid -weather of the past week has caused the appearance of potato blight, sonie crops suffering badly from its ravages. A benefit social was held on Friday night for a local person who has been disabled for some considerable time. The creditable sum of £32 was obtained for the young sufferer. Th© weather is still unseasonable, and is hampering outdoor work to a great extent. On Saturday afternoon a heavy rain set in from the south, and continued all yesterday unalbated. There are mauy crops of oats standing in stook in grave danger of being ruined. Small streams, which have net been low ail the summer months, are running ibank high. A dairy farmer here had the misfor. tune to lose a valuable cow last week, through over-eating red clover. Almost daily incidents occur where th? services of a district veterinary surgeon might save valuable stock. To-day is trucking day for haeon | pigs, and a number of farmer . intend ] taking advantage of the high price j (Gd) offering to relieve the stye of its inhabitants. ALFREOTON. Business changes have' been fairly frequent in the township of late. Mr ' A. J. Cordon has disposed of his saddlery business and has purchased a farm at Silverstream. J.t is Mr and Mrs Gordon's intention to proceed to their new homo immediately. Mr W. Rutherford has also disposed of bis butchery business. It is recognised that Alfredton cannot possibly advance until some of the larger estates become -more closely settled. I understand that one estate adjacent to the township is under offer to the Government. If it is not, accepted there may be a chance of tho owner sub-dividing and selling privately. A full meeting of the Sports Committee was held last Saturday night. f Tho meeting was adjourned until j Monday evening, out of respect to the memory of the late Mr W. Oates, | the of whose death was received i that afternoon, I At last Alfredtoil is to be possessed of a school residence, the erection' of ■ which is to commence at an early date. j_ 1 Since it has =been discovered thafcj California 11 thistle in some places has , been attacked by a blight, and has therefore no necessity to be cut, it is i marvellous how many farmers have discovered that their thistle has also the symptoms. Taihoa! ~tET recent heavy rain's have made | the winter feed assured. It will also have the effect of hastening crntching' operations. Most oi the settlers have dipped much -earlier this year than usual, having a plentiful supply of water. The grass grub, which is mostly the larvae of the green manuka beetle, and which played such havoc on some farms in .this district, is not expected to he ,so destructive this .year, since it is very seldom that the ravages of the pest is severe for two consecutive seasons. This is, of course, as far as local observations have gone.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10576, 6 March 1912, Page 3
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497DISTRICT NEWS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10576, 6 March 1912, Page 3
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