DISTRICT NEWS

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 11 December 1912, Page 5

DISTRICT NEWS

(Our Owti Correspondent.)

IvAIPARORO

Perfect weather Ims prevailed during the past week, ami farmers are availing themselves of the. opportunity to push on shearing and other outdoor work. Hay crops arc almost ready for harvesting so farmers throughout the district will have a busy time during the next few weeks. The supply of milk at the cheese factory is keeping well up to expectations. A machine for testing moisturo in cheese hay now been installed, and it is expected that this will he the means of effecting an improvement in the cheese that is manufactured.

Dairy farmers are experiencing considerable difficulty in obtaining pigs for fattening this season, so probably there will be very little bacon sent away from this locality during the summer. Most likely the scarcity of pigs, partly helps to account for the increase in the number of calves that are being reared. . An effort is being made to arrange a railway excursion for schools in the neighbourhood, but the movement does not appear to be meeting with support here. Distance from the railway and pressure of work during the summer months render it almost impossible for parents or children to participate in anything of the kind. On Saturday evening a progressive euchre tournament arranged by Mr and Mrs Palmer, assisted by Mrs Parker, was held in the hall, the object being to increase the hall funds. Quito n- number of people took part in the games, and the evening proved a thoroughly successful and enjoyable one. The money raised is to he expended in improving the ladies' dressing room at the hall. Tt was decided that another tournament should be held in the ne.ir future. Mr R. Ealkner has returned home after an absence of several months in the Hawke's Bay district. Mr Falkuer, senr., is at present on a visit to LevinMr D. Pallant, who has just- completed his training at the Wellington Training College for teachers is spending his vacation with his parents.