COMING MILK SEASON.

Opunake Times, Volume I, Issue 16, 24 August 1894, Page 2

COMING MILK SEASON.

, -j * - + There is apparently nothing definitely fixed between milk suppliers and Mr J. C. George for the coming season yet. Some weeks ago Mr George submitted certain proposals to milk suppliers, Which we published after the Oaonui meeting, and we believe similar terms were submitted to the other factories in this district. The milk suppliers were not agreeable to accept these 'terms, and in their turn submitted terms for Mr George’s approval. In order to come to something definite dogates were appointed for each factory. So that there should be no mistake about these delegates having the power to act and complete arrangements on behalf of the suppliers, an agreement was signed binding'the suppliers to abide by the action of their weeks since, a meeting took place at Opunake between the delegates and Mr George, when modified terms were submitted, and the delegates agreed to them, and informed suppliers that the question was settled. Judge of their astonishment when the following circular letter was received :—“ As no reply has been received from you respecting the modified terms for next season’s business, as suggested at our interview in Opunake, I have now to intimate that the offer I then made is withdrawn, and that the terms mentioned in my circular letter of 23rd July last remains as before, except that I engage to the half cartage charges at the end of the season if the business has proved profitable. —(Signed) J. C. George.” The delegates are totally at a loss to imagine what grounds Mr George had for expecting any further communication from them, and consequently are unable to understand why an arrangement, which they understood to be made and to be binding, should now be departed from.

The sale of timber, iron, etc., on account of the Wharf Co., notified for next Tuesday, is postponed. • ‘ >" , We remind the ratepayers of the Ihaia Road of the poll which takes place on Tuesday next on account of the loan for that road. Messrs Brightwell and Son have made an alteration in their price list, to which we call the attention of our readers. Tenders are called for the erection of a manager’s house at the Awatuna Co-opera-tive Dairy Factory. A shop is in course of erection for Mr Des Forges, in Main Street, opposite Mr Pettigrew’s. Advance Opunake! Mr W. D. Scott notifies that he has several kinds of farm manure on sale, which should be in demand at present. Captain Edwin wired at 2.45 p.m. to-day : —North to west and south-west gale after 12 hours from now with heavy sea and good tides; indications, rain. The first load of timber from Messrs Geary and Holmes’ mill, on the Waiteika Road, was brought into Opunake on Wednesday, to be used in the alterations which are to be effected at Mr Knowles’ hotel. The Normanby Co-operative Dairy Factory Company have appointed Mr J. Aitken as manager of their factory. Mr Aitken has been for the past two years successfully connected with Mr Hart as assistant cheesemaker at the Otakeho factory. The auction sale of drapery will be continued by Mr W. D. Scott, to-morrow, at the Foresters’ Hall, as time did not permit on Wednesday last of clearing out the whole of the stock. The last opportunity of procuring trees for planting this season will be offered next Tuesday, when Mr W. D. Scott will sell a large collection of fruit and ornamental trees and shrubs from Mr J. Mitchihson’s nursery, at New Plymouth. Mr O’Donnell has a magnificent yearling filly by Glasgow Geordie. She is a dark bay of splendid proportions, having great bone and plenty of hair. She is fit to be shown in any ring in the colony. The Crown Dairy Factory Company have erected at their Okato factory a cold storage chamber, fitted with one of “ Hall’s Patent Insulators." The supply of milk to this factory and creamery connected with it is estimated to reach upwards of 2000 gallons per day. We hear it rumored that the Oaonui suppliers have looked out a site for a factory, and have made enquiries showing that they can have a factory up in five weeks in the event of terms not being come to with Mr George. We call attention to an alteration in Mrs Orchard’s advertisement, which appears in this issue. Mrs Orchard received her musical training at Home, where she studied for twelve years under first-class masters, from whom she holds first-class certificates. She has since had twenty years’ experience in teaching, and is highly spoken of by the press, as an instructor, in any centre of population where she has resided. Mr Anderson, Rahotu, has had a second crop of apples on his trees this past winter, some attaining fair size. His Japanese plum trees are covered with bloom, giving promise of a heavy crop. This kind of fruit would do well along this coast, and should well repay settlers the expense of planting, particularly those with shelter around their orchards. The Rev G. T. Marshall will show a series of dissolving views on Monday evening next in the Awatuna Hall. The proceeds are to be devoted to missionary work amongst the heathen. It is a very nice entertainment, and the views are very beautiful as well as being highly instructive. We advise all who wish to spend a pleasant evening to attend.

' Mr R. Warner had the misfortune to lose a valuable draught horse during the week. The horse coupled with it started playing up and forced it on to the spreader bar, which penetrated the abdomen. The horse was thrown, and an attempt made to replace the entrails with a view to sewing it up, but they were not successful, and it had to be destroyed.

A few days since we had a look at the Clydesdale Glasgow Geordie, in Mr A. O’Donnell’s stables, at Oaouui. He has wintered well, and is in great buckle for the coming season. It must be considered a great boon to have such a splendid pedigree horse in the district. His stock are too well-known up and down the coast to need much comment, suffice it to say that all those who have bred from him are thoroughly satisfied with his progeny. He will be again at the service of breeders in this district during the season. Dates and particulars will appear in a future issue.

On Tuesday evening, in the Wesleyan Church, the Rev G. T. Marshall gave an exhibition of dissolving views, representative of Missionary Life in New Guinea, accompanying the same with a very interesting lecture. Some of the scenes depicted ard very thrilling, and show a phase of life in a part of the world where the conditions are totally different to what the great majority of those attending the entertainment had ever seen.

We call the attention of the Hawera Star to the following paragraph from the Daily News, and would point out that a statement may be true even though it does not appear in the New Plymouth papers or its own columns first:—“ The members of the deputation—Messrs R. Cook (Chairman of the Harbor Board), and N. King—who proceeded to Wellington to interview the Government on various matters of importance to the district, returned on Tuesday evening. We learn that they were successful in arranging for £IOOO to be advanced for purchasing cement, the amount to be repaid by the Harbor Board. The cement is urgently required for making blocks to repair a portion of the breakwater, which has been damaged. The work will be commenced without delay.”

A “ Special Correspondent ” sends from Wellington the following to the Egmont Settler :—“ The chairman of th* New Plymouth Harbor Board (Mr E. Cock), together with Messrs Hutchison, Smith, McGuire, and Kelly interviewed the Colonial Treasurer with reference to reducing the interest on bonds from six to four per cent, on similiar lines to those laid down by McGuire in his letter to the late Premier (Mr Ballance) in 1892. The Treasurer was satisfied that something should be done and promised to bring tbejnatter before the Cabinet. Messrs McGuire and Hutchison were suprised to see by the chairman’s statement that Crown and Native Bates, had not been paid to the Harbor Board by the Government, as specially provided by the Act and thought the Board very lax in not having communicated with the members of the district. The way has been already cleared by the action of Mr McGuire in the past, and if the members and the Board persevere, success will attend their efforts, and the Harbor Eating District will be relieved of £IOOO per year.