PARAHEKA NOTES.
,—♦—■ (Our Own Correspondent.) We have had a record for frosts during Juno and July this winter, but the unprecedented cold seems to have had no effect on the carrying capacity of the district as all stock are looking well. 1 notice that a lew lambs are making their appearance in some of the settlers' paddocks. The dairying season will start this month, and 1 am informed that a large number of new suppliers have joined the ranks of the dairying industry, which means a big increase in the output of butterfat for the .'district this season. The forfeited soldiers' farms in this district still remain unoccupied. It remains to be seen how long these sections will remain unproductive. Judging from the number of returned soldiers who vacated their sections in this district it seems to me that settling soldiers on the land is a failure. We have had a railway survey made through this district recently, in order to tap the Paraheka and Waitiwhenna coal seams. During the early part of last winter the GoA'ernment coal prospectors were in this district for some time with the result that outcrops of coal have been located on a number of settlers' farms.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XVII, Issue 1714, 19 August 1922, Page 5
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