EAST COAST NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 7 August 1913, Page 3

EAST COAST NEWS.

Our Own Correspondent. Settlers, who have lived in this district for the past twenty years,; express the opinion that no more fa-i vourable winter has been experienced on the coast. So mild has the atmosphere been that the grass showed evidence of growth all through" the winter. Indications point to an early spring, and already fruit trees are covered in blossom. Lambs are beginning to make their appearance on many of the farms of the sun-bund-ing district. The coming season gives every indication of being an excellent one as far as the farmer is concerned. The rabbit pest, which for many years has been a source of continual trouble and expense to the farmer \n this locality, Has, been.,almost wholly eradicated. /So suceessiiil have been poisoning operators it will not be . necessary on several places to continue poisoning tins summer. The settlers are to be congratulated thiit iiheir persistency in hunting down the pest is meeting with such excellent results. The Te Wharau Gun Club held a 21 clay-bird match on Saturday for a handsome trophy presented by Mr W. H. Kumirier. The weather was fine but a very bad light militated somewhat against good shooting. The leading scores are as follows: E.! Nitz (hep 13yds) 17,' W. IT. Kummer (13 s i 16, J. Tatham (11) 16, H. Nitz (18) 14, J. Paku (10) 14, Kahu (13) 12, ¥. C. Cotter (13) 12, P. Paku (10) 11, J. Johnson (10) 11, P. Kummer (10) 10. Messrs M. J. McGregor and R. Cooper presented the club with handsome trophies for competition during the season. The Te Wharau-Kaiwhata road is in a very bad state at present and in several places travelling is most difficult. Settlers have lived in the Kaiwhata Valley for about thirty years and it is considered something of a scandal that they have their only outlet over a road for the greater part unmetalled, arid this while money has been spent on other roads in the district which render little service to settlers. It is oertainly high time' that the Kaiwhata road was made at least ordinarily passable. The Te "Wharau Rifle Club will open the; season on Saturday, when a competition for young members will be decided. A trophy shoot, will be held in the-course of ,a week or two.' Work is fairly plentiful at present and a fair number of mem are employed in fencing and scrub-cutting contracts.