WAREPA.

Otago Witness, Issue 2849, 21 October 1908, Page 39

WAREPA.

October 19. — The weather has been very changeable, as it generally is at this time of tho year. We have had sunshine, rain, ynd wind, but tha rain was dried up by th-» wind before it had time to soak into •ths ground, so that a day's steady rain is badly wanted. i'arm Work.— Sowing is finished, and Yearns ar-s busy discing the ground for grass and turnips. The turnip ground has &or. very hard' this year, and requires a lob of work to make it fit to receive the seed. .Lambing. — The lambing will he a rocorJ thi3 year, as I hear of some farmers getting 150 per cent., and 100 per cent, wili ba a common thing-. So far th-ere lias been no storm to kill the la nibs. School. — The annual inspection was held on iSeptemiaer 24- by Inspectors Fitzgerald iPncl Richardson. The report hes not yet i>sen received, but tho Sixth Standard [pupils have all received proficiency certificates, and I understand that the inspectors weve well satisfied with the work and management of the schcol. Change. — The population is decreasing in this district, small farms being joined (ogothei- and held by one farmer. The last farm to change hands is that lately occupied by Mr J. Grigor. who ha.s sold out to Mr J. Christie. This property rdjoins -Mr -Christie's farm, " Kcithmore," at present Ica&sd io Twaddle Bros. As Mr Christie already belong? to this part, we are not gaining- another family in. place of JMr (jriigor, w-ho will bo much missed. General. — The singing class conducted by Mr Thomas finished up with en© quarter, as there was not sufficient inducement oifeied to start a second quarter. Mr R. Ayson has started a weekly practice in the church on Wednesday evenings, and in ,preparina: fcr the annual church social generally held about October. — The members of the Warepa and Kaihiku P.W.M.U. are busy nreparing for a sale of work to bo ht4d th-a first week of November. — So *ar -election matters are very- quiet, as no (Candidate ha 3 yet been nornir.ated to contest the Cluth* electorate with our present member, Mr A. S. Malcolm.