WAIRARAPA NOTES.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 77, 24 December 1907, Page 4

WAIRARAPA NOTES.

(from otin special correspondent.') ■ The creamery managers of the, Ballance Uo-operative Dairy Company are employed all the year round. Some of these officials have been on tho staff of. the company for the past twelve years. , • . It is very probable 'that if tho .Manawatu co-operative dairy companies do not enter into the proposal for a butter-box manufactory, something of tho kind will bo attempted by the Wairarapa and. Bush Districts ; companies. The matter should bo decided shortly. ... ; The extremely dry weather on the East Coast has been of great use. ; in enabling farmers to finish their shearing before tho holidays commence, but •Te Wharau residents expross tho opinion that the country would have reaped a . greater benefit , had there beon rain. • Bush District sawmillers state that there is about ten years' cutting in their localities before the mills will bo . finally •• abandoned. Thirty-five years , ago. the :whole place from Kopuaranga to Woodville was an almost impenetrable forest, with the exception of two Maori tracks, • one of which was known as that of Wi Waka. Wi, Waka was a,well-known chief, who, in his early days, had lived in cannibalism. It is this ancient ■warrior's footsteps that the railway lino has followed as well as possible. ' ,