WAIMATE.
A visit to tho farm workers' settlement nt Willcwbrklgo discloses that there are thirteen allotment, of about fivo acres each, and on each a substantial houso. Two woroTmilt by a Temuka firm, and tho other eleven by Messrs T*. I.et.-n ..-,, (>.. of Waimate. Tho road laid off through t 1 settlement lias boon fnuied and metalled. -Tho' limit of capital cost per section for land and houso and fencing is £600. The houses. n« contracted for. averaged £330 lo build. The occupiers aro paying weekly instalment- ranging from 15s 8d to 18s per week. The houses are oocUpied already. The rainfall for May was 1 SOin. P«in fell on ten days. In May, 1013. 1.07nu. fell on coven dav_.
At. a meeting of the committee of the Waimate branch of the Farmers' Union. -li-o (secretary reported tbat therifli 1 team's score for the Farmers' Union shield wns 509. The sum of £5 was voted to the Technical Board in support of iho projected scheme of lecture-! on mixed at'ri^ u^t ' Uro - a condition being tint the members of the Union bo admitted to loctnres free.
Reference was made in all the churches yesterday to the St. Lawrence di_aetcrx. • ■ ' ■
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Press, Volume L, Issue 14983, 2 June 1914, Page 3
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