PAEMAKO.

King Country Chronicle, Volume I, Issue 1, 26 October 1906, Page 3

PAEMAKO.

The weather, after being .unseasonably hot for some 'weeks, has turned colder, and a blustering wind with light showers has not been a pleasant change, although the rain has done a lot of good. Lambing is about ' finished; sheepowners who have docked, report from ninety to one nundred per cent of good strong lambs, the warm season having helped the youngsters' along from the start.

The Mangaotaki Valley settlers, after much- agitation, have succeeded in getting their post office and mail contract granted, and the mail-man was out for the first time on Saturday. He carries the mail from Mangaotaki to Pio Pio, a distance of about eight miles, and vice versa, for the sum of twentyrfive pounds a year, besides acting as postmaster, so that, when it is taken into, consideration, that for six months in the year parts of the road are almost impassable for horses, he is not overpaid: In connection with the above, the attention of the authorities should be drawn to the great need of more telephone communication in the back block, when the tracks are up to the girth in mud for so many months in the year. The telephone would bring the unfortunate wayback settler directly into touch with civilisation, and would be the means of often -.saving life in connection with some of- the numerous accidents, which take place in bush-falling and general pioneer work.

Shearing will soon begin, and with the roads drying up so early this year the wpoi should have a chance of getting out to the January sales.. Some years' the main Te Kuiti road is not available for heavy traffic until well after the New Year.