CARTERTON

Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 March 1939, Page 7

CARTERTON

DRY WEATHER AFFECTS MILK SUPPLIES. HAY BEING USED AS FEED IN DALEFIELD. ("Times-Age” Special.) As a result of the dry weather dairy factories’ supplies in the Wairarapa are falling rapidly each day. At Dalefield only seven vats are being worked. This, it is understood, is three vats lower than last year. Other factories in the district are affected similarly. So scarce is the feed problem becoming that farmers in the Dalefield district are resorting to hay feeding. If rain does not soon come the outlook for cows during the winter will be most unfavourable.

Although the weather at present being experienced is very trying and everything is being dried to a tinder, it is not yet so serious as was experienced in 1908, when during that year cows were reduced to skin and bone, and farmers had to cart willows and other green stuff for feed. Large Flock of Sheep. One of the largest flocks of, sheep seen on the roads for many years was drafted into a paddock near the freezing works on Friday morning. The sheep were in excellent condition. Personal. Mrs Archie Clarke, who has been to Auckland on holiday, returned to Carterton yesterday. The friends of Mr Laurie Jensen, Martinborough, a son of Mr and Mrs Dan Jensen, of Carterton, will be pleased to know that he is improving in Hospital after an operation for appendicitis. Licensing Committee. Mr W. Howard Booth, who has been a member of the Wairarapa Licensing Committee for twenty years, and who has given good service in that capacity, has been forced to retire. Mr Booth sent in his nomination paper on Wednesday in the usual way and was then informed by the returning officer that, as his place of residence is now in the Masterton electorate through changes in the boundary, he is not eligible to stand for election.'