MANGATAINOKA NOTES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4640, 6 February 1894, Page 3

MANGATAINOKA NOTES.

(Own Correspondent). I Lest your readers should perobauoe brget that there is such a place in he Forty-Mile Bush, I will draw heir attention to the fact, and also nform them that this is a real" live ilace." There is no doubt of this ' teing one of the most progressive < >ush townships in the district, with i mprovements of a substantial charloter going on in every direction. Several new buildings have been srected during tho summer, most conipicuous amongst them being the new hree story brick addition to Mr vVagstaJPs brewery. This addition is i low nearly coinpleied,and forms quite , i landmark, catching the eyes of iverybody travelling along the main :oad, When the carpenters have sompleted their work I will send you i more detailed description of the ntsrior arrangements of the building. Right opposite to the brewery is the jeneral store, where business is carried oh by Mr Godschalk, formerly oi Pahiatua, also Messrs Chambers and Barrell's butcher's shop, Mr Lundon's blacksmith's shop, and Mr Loader's saddlery business, next door to the large temperance hotel run by Mr C, Benzie. Next to Mr Benzie's place would be the m?st suitable site for a public hall, for which the need has arisen, especially since Mr Benzie has had his large upstairs floor partitioned off so as to give increased accommodation for his boarders. The dairy factory appears to be the spot where men " do mostly congregate," and it is quits a lively scene in the early morning to see numbers ot milk carts drawn up in front of the factory, discharging their cargo of new milk, I understand tho manager (Mr Hoisted) is consigning 200 boxes of butter to go by the " Tainui," which leaves Wellington on the Bth February, and a further consignment of 250 boxes is to be shipped by the "Kuahine" on the 16th inst, which will make the fifth shipment of this seaion's butter. The total milk supply during the month i of January, to the Mangataiuoka, Makakahi and Ballance factories amounted to 80,195 gallons;' wbioh at usual price of 3d per gallon I mean an expenditure to the lers o£ the factories of £IOO2 Bs, s is the highest amount yet paid milk at the Forty-mile Bußh fac< !he . grasß is ■ very plentiful rywhere, (is this season so far has n very favourable tottfe growth,

and stock in consequence is looking, well. .The usual buehfitcs have been j in evidence all around, and in .most oases good burns have been the result, The Maiigdtataolra Brass Bund is ' getting quite an institution to be proud of, and themembers individually show great progress and do credit to the leadership ofHerr Banders who wields the biiton. Athletic Sports, organised by the band ate to be held hereon the 21st inat and as this is (he maiden attempt at holding sports here, I wish the band every success and hope they will nelt a nice surplus for their fund.