TE AWAMUTU NOTES.
POWER LINES ON FARMS. PROTECTION AGAINST DAMAGE.[by telegraph.—own correspondent.] T.E AWAMUTU, Saturday. The Te Awamutu Electric-Power Board lias decided that where transmission lines cross private property they will have barbed wire twisted round the poles to prevent stock rubbing against them, it being considered that wires are frequently broken through cattle and horses rubbing against the poles. Settlers aro to bo urged to similarly guard poles of service lines to their homesteads r.nd milking sheds. The Power "Board now has 1797 installations and extensions, including 1201 lighting plants and 402 milking plants. The competition for tho best pedigree Jersey cow, on a typo and butter-fat basis, at tho Te Awamutu show, resulted: —A. Moroland and Sons' Beeohhnds Preference, 1; F. Phillips' Jersey Meadows' Sunday, 2; J. Melvor's Prim's Duchess, 3. There were seven competitors. Tho weight-guessing competition .it tho show resulted in a win for Mr. J. Tumwald, who estimated within 111b. of the correct woight (5261b.) of a heifer. Mr. W. Whitton guessed the exact weight (1241b.) of a sheep. '
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19567, 21 February 1927, Page 14
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174TE AWAMUTU NOTES. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19567, 21 February 1927, Page 14
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