KIRITAKI.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 62, 11 September 1908, Page 3

KIRITAKI.

[own correspondent.]

The beautiful spring-like weather t)f the ,nist_woek; |tas given place to a rather wind, but it has left

its mark ail the same, in .a certain greenness- in the paddocks, and in the beautiful verdure with which the willow trees are decked. Farmers generally are delighted with the splendid lambing season, and unless a very bad spell of rough weather should come along a very good percentage is anticiapted. Land values continue to be' of an upward tendency hereabouts and what figure properties will eventually reach it would be hard to say. During the last few days two properties have changed hands. Mr Marshall has sold his farm adjoining the Heretaunga creamery at the handsome fig-

ure of £28 per acre, and lie has

bought Mr M. Mortensen's farm opposite the Kiritaki School for £22 10s. Both the properties show an advance of £2 on their purchasing price of three or four years ago, so

that their owners may tie congratulated on having received a substantial return on their investments.

The milking season is rapidly approaching again. The Heretaunga creamery, under 'the management of Mr Rendie, has been re-opened, and both it and the local one are now running three days a week, with a prospect of a daily opening in th'o near future. The present price given by the H.B-. Dairy, Co. is lOd .perlb. of butter fat for this month, but we hear of Is being spoken of elsewhere. Before the milking season^mallv. sets in and "early to bed

and early to rise" becomes the order

of the day', or rather night, we hear that Kiritaks are to have a bit^moro gaiety. First on the programme, I understand, is to be a dance given by the bachelors on a date yet to be fixed, and the first Friday in Octo-

ber is booked for a concert in aid" of

the School Committee's, funds, the "proceeds of which, I believe, are to be earmarked as the beginning of a fund to btiy a piano, for the school, and thus obviate, the' necessity, of always borrowing one for the occasion. I understand that, a Sunday weekly service- is being arranged by the Anglican Communion in the local school, at which the new curate, Mr Kear, and our local lay-reader, Mr

Bell, will divide the services between

them. The service will commence at 7.3(F o'clock and the first will be held next Sunday evening. r " ..