TE AWAMUTU.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2111, 19 January 1886, Page 3

TE AWAMUTU.

m , _ I \v \s rather amused at n statement made to the Mini-ter foi Public W..iks that '-.ill the good agricultural .'iid pi-.tnr.il I mil-) were about Cambiidgi I .' Whit about Ohaupo, To Awamutu. Kiiiikihi, lii-i^i aoliia (the latter the gird«n of Wn'ut", at leist), and other place-. ! i • • : 'i ? It ii quite right that people should hiv .1 good opinion of thenisehe , but it li li udlv f.i'r to insinuate delicitcly th.it ot!i' i pi ice-- .m 1 barren and useles-*. We ,11c not h\ ,mv mean-! an\ioii^ to h.i\p ,i <-eh »il of Tcrrit.dtmo here, and oui loc il b idius do unt po-,-.c-, hucli a \ast extent of land "is \7\ ifii 1 -. wlrch is available for a -rhool fmu, ljut tho statement that all th^jrond land is about Cainbridpo, is. circulated by meun of the pii'-i all over New Zu il md. and <>ut~i<loi -> would naturally infer the cnly f«>itile_lnii in Waikato i" M'uated in tint highly favoured district, uhi n as a in liter of f.ict tho greater poitum of Upper Waikato from Hamilton Miuthwaids u good. Tlie (government a few days ago sent an ord pi to tho To Aw.imutu (Jlieesu Factoiy for some cheeM) to be s.>nt hom^ to the exhibition, I hope they Iwivc e\tmded their favour to the other factone-. also. I was in a gentleman's garden a few days ago, and he showed me his vinos. Thprc was an immense number of clusters, but all had the appearance of being mildewed. They looked as though they had been oiled and then dredged with a greyish-white powder. He said the growth was done, and when they as-nmed this appearance fuither development stopped, and the grapes would be u^ele-o. If any of your leaders know of a cure, the information would be gladly received. If published in yom columns, all wh > hivo vines so affected would no doubt try the remedy. The codlin moth is at work again in the gaidens, and i-, I think, even moie destructive than last year. What with the drought and insect pe-ts, the guldens aie having a bad time this ye.v. — (Own (Joi respondent. )