DISTRICT NEWS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXII, Issue 2613, 11 August 1928, Page 6

DISTRICT NEWS.

KAEIAEA. (Own Correspondent.) We are geting: evidence of a very early spring; tht peaches are beginning to blossom, also some early rose bushes. It has been a very mild winter so far, and a great saving of hay. Lambs are malting their appearance, too, in the district. There has been a. rather violent form of influenza around here which has laid up quite a number of settlers, some rather seriously, but I am pleased to say it seems to be gradually dying out. There is every prospect of a good dairying season in front of us; the one big drawback is the unmetalled portion of the roads which means costly cartage in some cases. It gets very wearying to be plodding through slush and mud for nearly a quarter of a century in the backblocks, but the settlers are living in hopes of something being done this coming summer. With one or two exceptions the settiers were very pleased to see the Daylight Saving Bill thrown out, as they considered it was no benefit to them whatever in any shape or form. The cream waggons are on the road once more, and the factory has made a good start for the coming season with an increasing number of suppliers, and would, be greater still but for that curse—the ragwort weed-