RIVERLEA.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 4 August 1925, Page 10

RIVERLEA.

(From Our Own Corrc*pom!ent.) M ETFOI i O'LOG 1C Al.. July, though so mew ii at broken throughout has, generally speaking, been a very mild month ami, as ictroirds the amount of rainlall, is the fewest in my records. i here have been no severe gales, and one. on Uie l:lth did the wind get above a strong breeze, and then only a moderate- gale eras recorded. For the most part v, in els were light to breeze. broken and showery weather prevailed from tiie Ist to the Bth, followed by three dry days, and then again broken, showery weather till the loth. I'oui dry clays, with trost.v, boancitul weather followed, and then Horn the 29th to the 27th the weather wa.s stormy with frequent heavy showers and colder and rougher conditions. lhe last four days' of the month were line and very mild. There, were two calm and clear days, and in all twelve days which might be reckoned a,s tine, 1U days were fair, six cloudy and three overcast. There were four frosts, one severe, one sharp and two only traces of frost. Wind direction during the month wero disposed wgll round the compass, though S.F.. with nine days was most frequent. .Northerly and southerly winds were equally p: ova-ient, each showing 12 clays. \\ incl blew from south-east nine days; north-east live days; north three; north-west three; west three; t south-west three; c csit two; and south one day. Two days, the 18th and 19th, were absolutely calm and clear at 9 a.in. The thermometer ranged from 41cleg. Fahr. on the 18th to 57deg. on the 22nd, and the mean for the month was 49deg. Fahr. 'lhe barometer showed conside.able variation, ranging from a maximum of 29.85 on the 19th to 28. <2 on the 24th, the mean barometrical reading being 29.285. The rainfall for the month was 4.21 inches on 17 days, the lowest recorded lieie. 'lhe maximum precipitation for the month was 1.00 (1 inch) on the 23rd. The minimum was 0.01 on the 11th and 16th. The wettest July recorded here was that of 1915, when 10.93 :nrhei> lell on

12 days and the previous driest July was in 1914, when 4.29 inches fell on 19 days. The average rainfall for July up to this year wa.s 7.1966 inches. TENNIS CLUB. A meeting of the Riverlea. Tennis Club was held on. Friday evening in the hall, the president (All.. A. E. Wills) in . the chair. Business was chiefly of a routine character. It was announced that the net. profits from the ball held la-stIa-st month came to just on £l4. Some discussion took place as to what method should be adopted with regard to the laying down of the concrete, and it was eventually decided to have estimates made and, if it was considered that the work could he done at a' reasonable price, to have •same car lied out by ci.-Htra.-t. GENERAL NOTES.

Glows are steadily coming into profit and the milk at the factory is mounting each day. Practically all the suppliers are now again running and the factory haw changed from every third day to every -second. The milcine.sw of the winter has kept the grass in good heart, anxl even the old oringia! pastures look greener tlia.» usual, whilst top-dressed resown pastures are making growth wherever they get- a chaince. Prospect* for next- season's price* .seem good, and with the price paid for cows during this winter need to bo so. One local herd was sold privately a. lew days ago lor. I understand, £l7 per bead, which would certainly iseem a satisfactory price for the vendor.

Members of the .school committee, with the headmaster and mhpc of the senior boys, were busy mi Friday planting trees on ih.e cartel i: bnmidia-ry of the school grounds:. in nty opinion. one iniLstako was marie, I'm' which neither the ooimmittee nor tiic master was to blame, and that, was that the power* that be sent too great a variety of trees. A few good and useful sorts would probably prove mure useful, but i|>ussibiy the idea, of tho agriciilUiifal 'in.striiieto.rs is >tp experiment and show which * trees make best growth and ..prove useful. So doubt that may he all, right, hut it also may prove fatal to a. good plantation. AN IDIOTIC’ PRACTIC F A recent accident to a bov cyclist in the diiwtrict bring,s. to my mind a practice, which cannot he too severely condemned, on the part, of some hike ride ns—(mostly schoolboys, though some older ones who should have more sense —of showing off by riding along without holding their handle bars, sometimes even with their haiiid* shoved in their trousers pockets. Only a fendays ago: 1 i.vaw one of these .smartics, and lie was not a schoolboy either, flying piast a moving lorry with several tons of stuff on board’ in this idiotic iaishion. A skid o. any mischance and he might have !a.n-ie:l under the lorry’s wheels and, as like as not, the unfortunate lorry driver would have received tfie blame audi probably lost fits license and pen Tapis. been given a. sentence of imprisonment. The practice is, .to put it in plain Fug fish, a damnable one and should be m,ade a punishable qrime.