OUR Daily Features

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 13064, 5 February 1943, Page 2

OUR Daily Features

The following items of interest are reprinted from the Bay of Plentj Times of fifty years ago:

We go home evidently to learn news. The N.Z. Herald says: — The Tauranga paper understands that a gentleman from the States is in that town, with the intention of starting a fish-curing factory.

Every one in Te Puke lias been busily engaged with harvest work during the past two weeks, and the main part of the work has now been done. The weather has been continuously showery but although the heavy bank of clouds that came up from the sea night after night caused a great deal of anxiety to the farmers who were in the middle of their work, the appearance was worse that the result and all the grain has so far been stacked in good condition. The maize over the whole district has come on very rapidly lately, some crops which were looking very backward only a week or two since have come on in a wonderful way with the hot moist weather. The various flaxmills at Te Puke are all busily at work, with a plentiful supply of green flax; labour has been rather scarce of late, with the demand for harvest hands, grass seed cutting, etc., and not a few of the deliquents in the late orchard plundering case made themselves very scarce both for their employers and Constable Hughes, their guilty conscious impelling a tedious sojourn in flax swamps and other out of the way places, until the fear of a summons was over.