OTOROHANGA.

Waipa Post, Volume I, Issue 11, 23 May 1911, Page 3

OTOROHANGA.

(Own correspondent.)

Mr Spragg paid his annual visit to Otorohanga to confer with his suppliers on Tuesday. A large number assembled to hear the report on the past season, and in spite of the drought were well satisfied with their year’s work. Mr Spragg drew the suppliers’ attention to the general forward movement that was taking place in most of the dairying districts in the matter of testing each cow separately, and culling out the unprofitable ones which cost just the same to feed as the good cows, He instanced a case where seventeen picked cows in one herd gave the same returns as thirty-eight of another herd.

The Otorohanga Domain Board held their annual meeting on Saturday, May 13, Mr Vicary being re-elected chairman, and Mr F. Forster secreiary. Messrs J. Ormsby and C. J. Johnson were also present. Mr Vicary reported good progress had been made with the breaking in of the domain, and that they hoped to have sufficient ground in good order to suit the footballers by next season. Thirty-one chains of fencing and thirty-five chains of draining have been completed, besides clearing eight or ten acres on the flat. It is proposed to expend another £SO in stumping and grassing this coming season. The Empire Picture Co. had a crowded hall in Otorohanga on Wednesday, and it is hoped that

the company will make the visit here a regular thing. As showing the progress this township is making, and the quick manner in which the surrounding district is becoming populated, the Railway Department has decided to appoint a stationmaster here. To anyone watching the arrival of goods and chattels every : day at the station it would not come as a surprise, but what pleases the residents is that the appointment has been made by the authorities without any petition ha ring to be sent in by the local authorities. Messrs Izard and Elliott have just sold their Native lease (42 years) of 1100 acres at a satisfactory figure to Mr Brisco, from Palmerston, who has taken up another 1700 acres Native lease adjoining. Mr Vicary reports having sold Mr Matthew’s Native lease just outside the township boundaryThis property, which so far has never been ploughed, has been fattening bullocks at the rate of one bullock to two acres. Mr Rayner also reports having sold Mr Rowen’s farm of 207 acres to Mr Johnson from Opunaka.