WHAREROA ROAD.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XIX, Issue 3231, 22 September 1892, Page 2

WHAREROA ROAD.

(FSOM A OOEBBSPONDBNT.) The rainfall in this district daring the past four months has been enormous and consequently busbfalling has got somewhat into arrears, ahbongb in certain oaseßbnah hands have otuok to their jobs through thick and thin, andean boast of scarcely having lost a day's work. However, the recent spell of reasonably fine weather has been fully taken advantage of by all, and, providing the present con. racts are fulfilled, there ahoSld b. Home 2?^2yA ew S? by XmaB ' whioh ™»« when added to the present large area now under grass be considerable. This tends to prove that the bard-working and nobness of the district which will in a Kt'JE "!?• undo ? b teaiy rank first with any other district in the oolony as a sheen grazing country. v In spite of the rough winter stook of all sorts look remarkably well, and lambing is now in fall swing, while several early lots are ooming on well, and on a sonny ™S!?* II X amnßiDg t0 w&toh *8« reyells as they race and skip in flocks. IwSS? ♦ hßt thiß was R fcwin Year. Certainly there seem to be an unusually large proportion of twins, and I know of several cases where the settlers have 100 and in one case 115 per cent of lambs to show, which must be considered very satisfactory, and proves what can be done even in the bush with a little care. The main road through the Maori bush has lately been much improved by scrubf»JL! Dd ? artl y st «mp»ng an additional twelve feet, and, as the work was done well by the contractors, we should have a very good road all through the summer.