PATEA.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 11 December 1925, Page 8

PATEA.

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

The heaviest shock of earthquake felt here for many years was experienced at about 1.17 o’clock oil Thursday morning. The shock was preceded by a long and loud rumbling. No damage is reported. The directors of the Whenuakura Co-operative Dairy Company have for several years past been endeavouring to obtain the services of a farm dairy instructor, but the cost to a single factory was too heavy. At last, however, their efforts have been crowned with success. Through the courtesy of the Okoia Co-operative Daily Company, the Whenuakura Company has been enabled to join their farm dairy instruction scheme, and the inspector is now hard at work in this district among the suppliers. The group now consists of the Okoia, Wangaehu, Turakina, and Whenuakura Co-opera-tive Dairy Companies, and the number of suppliers receiving the attention of the inspector exceeds 500. The paddocks round about are all beginning to show the effects of the continued dry spell and baking winds. The supply of milk at some of the factories is well below that of this time last year.