Waimate North.

Northland Age, Volume 3, Issue 19, 11 December 1906, Page 5

Waimate North.

(From our own Correspondent.) . I am pleased to be able to say that so far most crops are looking well round here. Oats especially are very fair. In some parts potatoes are totally destroyed, while other patches are looking first-class and give promise of good returns. Owing to the indifferent state of the weather shearing is much later than usual, and the past week having been fair owners of the wool producers have been busy getting as much off as possible. Hay-making lias already started, and there is a busy time in s'ore for us, Christmas Day included should that great day happen to be fine. *- I am told that the Co-operative Dairy Company arc turning out something like 10 cases of butter per day, which is rather more than heretofore, while there are now three hands emploj’ed in the factory. I notice our worthy postmaster and storekeeper is doing steady battle with the stones and gorse on his farm. The boxing tournament fixed for the first (last Saturday) did jjot come off owing to one of the principals feeling indisposed. However a very amusing evening was spent in short rounds, with a song by way of a change. December 3rd, 1907.