WHAREROA.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 1 November 1924, Page 3

WHAREROA.

(From Our Own Correspondent.) The annual meeting of the Whareroa social hall directors was called for Monday, the 13th October, Mr. Robt. ITicks, chairman of directors, presiding. Mr. G. A. Murphy, treasurer of the society, submitted a balance-sheet, which showed a profit of £45 10s on the year’s operations. The total indebtedness of the hall directors is now under £loo, and .seeing that they have a building well worth live times that sum they are to .be congratulated on the position they have attained. Much of the success of the institution is due to the unwearied efforts of the local ladies in organising dances and entertainments whereby the funds were appreciably swelled. It is to be regretted that some of the gentlemen (even among those connected with the management of the hall) dp not show anything like the zeal in its welfare as do the ladies. Anyone travelling down the coast at present cannot fail to: notice how the sheep has .supplanted the cow on the rich pasture lands from Patea to Brunswick this season. Between the Patea and the Whenuakura Rivers, wherein, is contained some of the finest pastoral land in New Zealand, the greater part of the country seems to be given over to. dry stock and sheep. The explanation is that, with wool at such peak ' prices as have been ruling lately, the cow is simply not in. it when expenses are considered. Even as regards fat stock at present prices, the comparison is against the milch cow. Possibly in a season or two the pendulum will .swing the other way again. Some of the local herds are milking particularly well ah present. One lot of 50 is producing 9100 of milk daily, and la. small - herd of 1-1 is returning over 600 lbs. These cattle are mostly crossbred, it being usually allowed that these as a rule furnish more milk, although the test may not be so satis* factory as with the purebred.