OTAKI ITEMS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXII, Issue 27, 1 August 1911, Page 8

OTAKI ITEMS.

[BT TILBSRAfH— SIEGIAL TO THE POST,] OTAKI, This Day. The dairying industry is likely to show a vast increase here during the coming seaeon, and several milking machines are being installed where hand labour was formerly used. Already a dozen have been fitted up at Manakau alone, and there ie now talk of erectmg a. cheese factory, a-fid still retain the two dreameries. This latter movement is likely to be fully gone into at an. early date. The project of erecting 1 similar factory hero seems to have died a natural death, and is completely lost eight, of. At Te Horo the Otaki Dairy Company intends to erect v mixed receiving depot and creamery, and, with the cutting-up of the Gear Estate, it is considered that, with the present supply and that anticipaed, the milk yield trom this district alone will be considerable. The Otaki Dairy Company is flow giving Is per 1b for butter-fat. To cope with increased work the company is having extensive alterations made and more up-to-date machinery installed. In the course of a few weeks the factory will be m full swing. Local residents are chiefly in ia-vour of Mr. Sidey|s Dayligh^ Saving Bill, and the petitions now circulated hero are being well filled. Mr. Bert. Larkin, stationmaster, who haa been indisposed for some time, has again resumed his duties. Miss Foster, who m leaving lwi« shortly for Wellington, has been presented by the Methodist Sunday School teachers with an enlarged photograph of themselves. The old railway crossing at Manakau has been closed, and this before the subway promised has been started. There is much indignation in the township. At present residents wishing to cross the line have to journey north of the township. Owing to the crossing being shut off with a wire fence and no light erected thereon, one or two accidents have b'jen narrowly averted. It ie probable' that the road board and county council will discuss the matter at next meeting.