Victoria Valley.

Northland Age, Volume 3, Issue 20, 18 December 1906, Page 6

Victoria Valley.

(From our Own Correspondent.) Many of our Takahue neighbours are urging that a creamery should be el ected on a site suitable for the suppliers of Takahue and this district. Should this meet with the approval of some of our largest milk suppliers and butter makers, there should not be the least difficulty in guaranteeing the required number of cows. The site spoken of is at or near the junction of the' Takahue-Yictoria Valley road.

Many of our young men have lately become members of the Mangonui Mounted Rifles. As the present conditions of attendance at parades, etc., are much more satisfactory now than formerly, we cannot too strongly recommend this course. The late South African war has proved to us the value of Mounted Infantry columns. Not only is the back block youth capable of foraging a henroost for his supper—he is also able to take bis share of the grim reality of actual waifare. On the famous march by General Plummer along the border of Basutoland, when men were served with a pound of flour per diem (and a sheep when you caught it), no better class of men in the world could be found than the back block settlers’ sons. Dec. 10th, 1906.