RANGITANE.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 131, 2 December 1908, Page 5

RANGITANE.

[own cobbesponb-ent.] Tlie long-looked-for school in ourblock is at- last likely to becomo an established fact. It is now in the course of erection on a section at the Kumeti-Rua cross roads. Parents are anxious that the building should be completed in time to allow the school to be opened in the. New Year. Rua Road i» being patched with metal at. .present. If the metal is raked in, and the largo stones knapped a good road would bo an assured fact for next winter. - As showing that the settlers are keenly alive to the advancement of their district, they -are taking steps to "form a co-operative dairy "factory: Tho question has been enthusiastically taken up, and a committee has been formed, which is to submit a report, to a meeting to bo held on Saturday evening next. The milk supply at the factories is increasing largely each week, and the season promises to bo a profitable ono for tho sett] ots. The country presents a.splendid appearance on all sides, tliere" being an abundance of grass, while the crops are looking- 'splendid,'", especially" oats.