WATAROA NOTES

Grey River Argus, 7 October 1949, Page 2

WATAROA NOTES

[Our Own Correspondent]

Road Service vehicles have continued to take away many silver pine poles and posts from South Westland. This timber is very useful for the P. and T. Department, which without it would have to import Australian timber at high prices. Owing to an increase in the supply cream is now to be called for three times each week in the district. Mr. A. Dehn and son have returned to Okarita Forks after being away on holiday.

Messrs. D. Hyndman and J. Shivas have been recent business visitors, preparing for a sale of live stock on October 20, where there is expected to be a very substantial yarding. Wataroa and far South districts have been sending away many trucks of cattle, as supplies are short in other parts of the West Coast. The other day a couple of drovers left here for the far south to assist in a big drive from Okuru and the Haast, which is an arduous job. as the Paringa road is not nearly as good as it was. It is a track to which too little attention is paid and it is hard to secure men for so remote a place. In the papers note is made at times of the lack of labour for road work in the outback, but it would take more than a bunch of turnips to attract thereto the people who write up lack of labour as labour “trouble.”

Whitebait, which is said to divert labour from road work are not traversing to rivers, so that any who might have left regular work are not showing much profit. The rough sea's are said to be against catches, the fish keeping well off shore. An improvement may follow the northerly blow.

At Addington market this week sales of South Westland cattle were: P. J. Williams (Foxglaceir), 4 steers at £36 2s >6d to £37 7s 6d, 4 heifers at £24 12s 6d; W. Deidrichs (Koiterangi), 8 steers at £23 12s 6d to £33 7s 6d; Sullivan Brothers (Fox Glacier), 8 heifers at £2B 17s 6d to £3O 2s 6d.