MAUNGAKARAME ANEWS

Northern Advocate, 16 November 1929, Page 11

MAUNGAKARAME ANEWS

(From pur Own .Ootrcspo.nde.nt.)

. The spell of went weather, although making things rather unpleasant at milking times, has been of great benfit to the pastures and a plenitude of feed is assured for some time to conic.

Record loads of cream are leaving the district and on [Monday no fewer than four lorries were needed to cart the cream cans.

When one considers - the amount of wear and tear on our roads and the lorries, those who favour the establishment of a local factory have a strong case to put forward. At aj conservative' estimate a half-penny lb', of butter-fat is being lost to thej district through unnecessary cartages) and extra cost of maintenance ot| roads. Twenty pounds loss oft every: 10,0.00 lbs of fat is a big price to pay for lack of initiative and business enterprise. With a railway station at our floors it seems absurd to carf cream past it, and take it about 15 miles to Whangprei, and the butter tp come south again. .

’lCaramea, with its abundance of clear spring water,'its pastures capr able of carrying 5,000 cows j withia. a Small area, its good roads, and centra} situation, is - ideally fitted, to run its own butter factory, either as a branch of or independent of the Whangarei Company. The interest on the money •that has gone out of Jbo district to pay for ‘‘Yankee” benzine and other ways during the last -decade would, if spent on providing public facilities, have put ’Karamea on thf map.

In these days of “superfine” cream it cannot be in the best interests of suppliers to have to keep their cream for three days in the hot weather. The “powers that be” say it would not pay to run a lorry on Saturdays to • collect cream, yet they rim an extra one on Mondays. Why the cost, of running' a lorry should be greater on Saturday than op a Monday , is beyond the understanding of presentday “cookies,” but no ,doirl>t the next generation, .who should be' bettor educated if they get a year longer at school, will be able to appreciate the finer points of .dairy factory mWge, pient.

RAILWAY STATION.

It is pleasing to potc that in connection with the proposed speeding up if the Auckland express it is qot intended to cut Tauraro'a opt as a stop. T)iis tends to show that there must be a considerable amount of goods and passenger business at this station, and it behoves all who can to patronise this station.

ROAD MARTTEh*.

The secretary of the local branch of the N.Z. Farmers’ Union has received word that the Whangarei County Council does not intend to link up the Tangihiia-Tangiteroria road at Waiota w a at the present time. The engineer’s estimate for acquiring and construction (formation only) of the road wgs in the vicinity of £2,500 and that it would be impossible for the Riding to find its share of this amount. It was also intimated that the council was committed to the road through Mr W. Codlin’s property.

PERSONAL,

Mr T- O ’Carroll, who is on holder, loft with Mrs O’Carroll by express for Auckland for a few days’ change.