EKETAHUNA

Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 May 1941, Page 7

EKETAHUNA

COLD WEATHER FROSTS EXPERIENCED. ("Times-Age” Special.) Eketahuna has been experiencing, fine, but very cold weather during the past few days, with heavy frosts recorded in the morning. The weather has been somewhat unusual for this time of the year, and many residents are optimistic enough to predict that the winter will be a comparatively mild one. On the other hand, there is the fear expressed by others that the long spell of fine weather recently experienced wili be followed by an equally long cold and wet winter and spring.

DAIRYING SEASON BENEFIT OF TESTING. The dairying season is drawing to a close and many factories have closed down. Reports generally are to the ‘effect that the season has been a satisfactory one. Hords are being turned out for the winter months, and feed in most cases is fairly plentiful. There appears to be sufficient “hard feed” on hand for cows, and given reasonable conditions they should come .through the winter period satisfactorily. It is anticipated that by the time the new season opens many herds will have been increased, chiefly in order to contribute in an additional respect to the war effort. Those’ dairy farmers who have had their cows tested over the past year or two have reaped the benefit of their enterprise in additional profit, due to the fact that the “robber” and the “boarder” cow have been discovered as the result of the testing and eliminated from tiie herd. If every dairy farmer in the district were to adopt the wise policy of testing his cows then Eketahuna would stand out as' the premier dairying district of its siz’e in the Dominion.

EKETAHUNA’S WAR EFFORT A SPLENDID EXAMPLE. Eketahuna yields to no one in its patriotism, and in its determination to do its share in winning the war. While the district is supplying more than its legitimate quota of volunteers in all branches of the war service there is a determination on the part of residents to see that 'local soldiers shall not be overlooked in the matter of comforts. Consequently, scores of residents throughout the district arc busy knitting garments and providing parcels for those who are going away, or who will depart in the future, to fight in the cause of the British Empire. Contributions in cash and kind are steadily being sent in to various patriotic funds, and, altogether, Eketahuna has every reason to feel proud of its war work.