WATAROA NOTES

Grey River Argus, 24 August 1945, Page 2

WATAROA NOTES

(Our Own Correspondent) Mr. J. Shivas, of Tymons . Ltd., Greymouth, was amongst the visitors during the week. Mr. C. Lumseden, who was leading bushman at A. R. Wallis’s Sawmill, has left to take up a position in Dunedin. Mrs. Lumsden, who is conducting the boarding house at the mill, is to follow her husband m about two months with her young family. They will be missed very much, as they were capable and very courteous people. , . Lambing in the Wataroa district is now in full swing and, if the weather is favourable it is thought it will be completed early next month. The season promises to be a very good one a,s very; little extrusion exists among the ewes. . The heavy fall of snow, causing the river water to be hard t and cold, tends to prevent the whitebait from travelling any further than the tidal waters. The fish like the warm water to travel in. The 10 per cent. _ refund on last year’s wool clip, which was held over after appraisement, has now been paid to the farmers, whose smile broadens right out on receipt of the accrued money. , , - Sawmillers who had to stand down awaiting the Arbitration Court decision have made a start again under the new award rates. The survey of the flooding of lands near the Wataroa has not been gone on with so far. This is a most important job and should be taken m hand at an early date. The Minister of works promised a deputation that he would have this matter prosecuted, but so far nothing appears to have been done. The river threatens a very large area of land, if not the whole flat, which is considerable. Farmers are having some trouble in securing fertiliser for their holdings. With the war over any restriction that has been in force should be lilted and the fertiliser put on the market, so that those seeking it may receive a reasonable quantity.