KAITUNA NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LVII, Issue 8910, 9 November 1907, Page 5

KAITUNA NEWS.

(Special to Daily Times

Shearing operations have already commenced here. Mr Wm. Falloou, taking advantage of the present favourable weather, has about half of his Leavesdeu flock shorn, while other landowners are meditating starting in the course of a few clays. Two local residents have decided on a machinesliearing campaign. Having purchased the necessary outfit, consisting of an oil engine, fittings and machines, they intend journeying from one shed to another with their plant, which is constructed as lightly as possible, An accident was narrowly averted at the school last Sunday, after the church service. Three ladies who had driven from a distance were just seated for their homeward journey, when the horse attached began to back in a most vigorous manner. One of the ladies, in trying to get out of the trap, fell heavily to the ground, and barely escaped the wheel as the horse, chaugiug tactics, bolted. The animal was brought to a standstill some distance up the road, and luckily no damage was done.

The firewood industry is being carried on extensively here now, and, considering the roads, it seems strange that such a gold-producing occupation has just only lately advanced from infancy. The fact that some woodcutters are splitting each a cord of wood a day speaks well for the industry, aud yet some settlers are complaining that they are unable to sell enough wood to clear their laud.