NGAPARA NOTES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XLIV, Issue 14040, 24 April 1920, Page 1

NGAPARA NOTES.

(From a Contributor.) In common Jwith other localises Ngapara is suffering from drought. Tanks are empty, or nearly so, and the ground is too drv nnd hard for t,he temper of the ploughman. The appearances have been promising for a good rain" on several occasions, but the rain seems reluctant to come. Though on three days this month the temperature was well over 80 degrees in the shade, last week it got as low as 50 degrees, and several -rather severe frosts for this time of the year Lave been" experienced. \ Ngapara is suffering from an epidemic of farewells. Within the past month we have said good-bye to Mr Albert Robbie, who, though not prominent in public functions, was a. reliable, popular, and' ; highly-respected citizen; to Mr "Win. Wright, who was prominent on Collie Dog Club and Sports Committees, and at one tune on the School Committee; and to Mr P. T. Shand, who. though, really, a.i-e----,sident of Windsor, took a keen : and helpful interest in the Ngapara ■Rifle Club, Ngapara Tennis Club, and lor the last two ■years'in-the. Ngapara Horticultural Society, in all of which he will be much missed. On -Tuesday next we put a climax to the month in a farewell social to Miss S. Wilson, who has, since August, 1912, very faithfully arid successfully taught the junior department of the local school, and next month takes up an appointment, vrt Wairoa, Hawke's Baj. Judging by the long lines of trucks waiting to.be unloaded of. late, and t'ln: amount of shuntina going on, Ngapara railway station could do with an extra siding during the wheat season. Milligari and Bond's new storeroom now has the roof on, and apparently every, effort is is being made, to fill-it to the said roof „as quickly as possible.. On appearances, Ngapara should: not suffer from a flour shortage. Much -interest- is 'being taken locally in the settling of Tilverstowe; arid Arnmore, and Mr Glenn's estate at Georgetown. At. the same time:much causticcomment ,i% being' passed .on the "powers that.be'.': for nothaying: these, estates balloted for before the clearing; .sales. Soldiers have, thus been deprive ed, of the \opportuuity of obtaining, stock that had be<m acclimatised to the respective districts/>;^;-;;-:'^-'r. ; ' : >