NEWS FROM COUNTRY. DISTRICTS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11619, 5 April 1901, Page 7

NEWS FROM COUNTRY. DISTRICTS.

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lIUNTLY.

THE Waerenga Creamery is now a going concern, under the able management of Mr. Carley. The creamery uses the Alpha-Laval separator, driven by a Tangye's engine, arranged to burn wood. A total of 440 gallons of milk per hour can be treated. The average supply per diem is 400 gallons, having an average of 4 per. cent, of butter-fat. Prospects for next season are bright, and the customers seem very satisfied with the firm's arrangements, the milk being paid for at ruling prices. The district is well adapted for milk producing. It is thought that when the road is metalled to Tangawaha the settlers there will avail themselves of the services of the creamery. Given good roads, more settlers will bring milk for separating. In the near future' it is stated to be the intention of the Road Board to take up a financial loan sufficient "to metal the main roads throughout Waerenga. . , „ , . Wino vats and cellars have been fixed at the Government plantations, Wairangi, a fair amount of grapes being available to make a good start at wine-making. Grapes seem to have ripened well at Wairangi, although in other parts of the district I hear that owing to the lack of dry. warm weather, this summer the ripening hafl been very uneven, and the small birds have been destructive. ■'.-■'■- ■" At Matahuru and Matahuru Gorge, some seven years ago, the settlers built two sheds, constructed of rough rimu frames with white pine palings for boarding. This was done to provide temporary school accommodation. Lately these sheds have got into disrepair— in fact, they are not fit for school accommodation. The local School Committee in consequence applied for a grant from the Education Board, and all they received in reply was a qualified offer of £30. It is regrettable to notice that the Board are economising at the expense of the court settlers. Half-time schools should at least be weather-proof.

CAMBRIDGE. . THE following awards have been made by the Cambridge Dairy Association for the best five pigs. ■■':.. Week ending March 16, Henry Reynolds, Newstead, Yorkshire and Berkshire, weighing 6971b; week ending March 23, Win. Scott, Pukerimu, Berkshire, weighing 6851b; week ending March 30, G. Totty, Te Rore, Berkshire, weighing 6881b.

PAPAKUEA. AT the Courthouse on Monday, old age pensions were awarded as follows:— McLeod, £18: . Ann J. Walker, £18; Marion McEwan, £18: George L. Cole, £18; Robert Cooper, £7; Jane McKinstry, £3.

; WAIPU. MR. Hutchison, S.M., held sittings of the Court on March 26 and 27, for the purpose of hearing claims, etc., under the Old Age Pensions Act. There were no fresh claims made for pensions, the business being entirely confined to the readjustment of and regranting claims that have expired by the effluxion of time. . . , We have now a fairly flourishing Oddfellows' lodge established in the district, numbering 34 members, having an average age of 27 years and six months. The lodge has been going only nine months at the end of December last, when the annual balance-sheet had to be submitted to the District Lodge, when the Loyal Waipu Lodge, in its statement of assets and liabilities, showed assets, cash in bank, amounting to £63 13s 3d. It iB to be hoped, that all our young men will take the opportunity of attaching themselves to the lodge without delay, and thus provide themselves against the time when sickness or accident may.befall them, and incapacitate them for work, and it will be a, provision which thev can always benefit by. no matter what part of the world they happen to be in, as these lodges are in existence m every part of the civilised world, ana tney co-operate with each other in benefiting each other's members that are in good standins: financially. ~ ~ The Rev. G. Jones has for a considerable time been: in a low state of health, and incapacitated from performing the duties ot his charge. The Rev. J. Davidson, of Maungaturoto, has, very, kindly conducted the setvices at the church on two alternate Sundays, and has promised to hold another service on Sunday after next.'