RUAKAKA NEWS

Northern Advocate, 25 October 1929, Page 7

RUAKAKA NEWS

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

GENERAL.

Beautiful summer weather has prevailed all this month and roads are at their best. It is rather dry for the gardens, and vegetable plots are in need of a few good showers. Milking is in full swing and the cream lorries are .working their best to deal with heavy loads of ©ream. A .record season is anticipated as feed is now plentiful and the warm weather encourages growth in pasturage.

Each Sunday tire beaches are Well patronised and the meeting place of scores of cars, motor cycles, and ’buses, their occupants all eager to enjoy the fresh sea air and salt spray. A new, up-to-date building has been erected for a tea-room and the old one removed ovef to the Domain.

Labour Day promises to be a gala day at Ruakaka Beach, as many visitors are expected to witness the official opening of the Mew Domain bridge. Tho ceremony is to take place at 2 p.m, and to Mrs Norman McKenzie has been allotted the honour of cutting the ribbon.

Several farms have changed hands recently, the farm of Mr J. Katitch being taken over this week by a southern buyer. ■Several residents are still inmates of Whangarei District Hospital, suffering from the after effects of influenza and its complications.

PAINFUL ACCIDENT,

A painful accident happened to Mr John Salle last Monday when he was taking his cream with horse and sledge or. the Waipu-Oakl eight road. An Auckland-bound motor car collided with the team and caused the driver to fall heavily on the hard metal. driver of the car stopped and conveyed tho injured map to a doctor in Whangarei whore his wounds were attended to.

The road is so very level and well formed just at this place that motorists are inclined to speed along the three-mile stretch. At night, especially, is this the case, as residents hear them rushing past till after midnight in the summer.