LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 15 September 1924, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The New Zealand Producers’ Board lias received a cable from its representative a,t Buenos Aires, South America, advising the following shipments to the United kingdom for the fortnight ended September 6, 1924, from Argentine and Uruguay:—lß2,47s quarters chilled beef, 40,050 quarters frozen heef, 28,520 carcases frozen mutton, 37,735 carcases frozen lamb. The quantity shipped to the Continent of Europe during the same period totalled 124,450 quarters frozen beef, 11,108 carcases frozen mutton, . 701 carcases frozen lamb.

The manner In which motor traffic is tearing up the newly-metalled Mountain Road was brought before the notice of the Eltham County Council on Saturday by Cr. Campbell. He said I'hat the road had cost the council about £3600. to put in condition, but now that it had got such a beautiful surface motorists between Hawera and Eltham were using it in preference to the Boylan Road, which was a. wide tar-sealed road. He hoped that motorists would show consideration for the council in the matter and only use the Boylan Road, as, with the summer coming on, it would only be a. matter of a few months before Mountain Road would be back in its old bad state if through traffic continued to use- it. He asked that motorists should consider the feelings of the settlers who had rated themselves in order to provide the road in question.

A Stratford resident who made a business trip -.round the Mountain last week waxes quite enthusiastic over .the spring-like appearance of the countryside. He says the country is looking remarkably well in its pristine sward cl green. Particularly is this the case in the Opunake district, where evidence of the early season, compared to this part of Taranaki, is most marked. The sequel to the visitation by the salt blizzard some months ago is to be seen in the blighted plantations in the Pihama and Auroa districts, where the p-inus insignis trees especially .have not recovered from the blast. In this connection. it is worth noting that a. young sailormah who is spending a holiday at his parents’ home at finds one of the most satisfying features of his vacation is the soothing effect of the green fields and plantations in this Dominion compared to. the parched appearance of the country generally in Australia.—Post.