TAHAKOPA VALLEY.

Otago Witness, Issue 3030, 10 April 1912, Page 39

TAHAKOPA VALLEY.

April 3. —It is pleasing to announce that a. delightful cha.ngo of the weather has at length set in, reviving all Nature. Settlers dreaded lest the unseasonable period of wetness and cold should continue, and thus affect the saving of the oat harvest. However, the first of April assured us of our foolishness, for it ushered in an assurance of the divine promise that “seed time and harvest shall not fail.” Though over the little fields of gram but patches of gold mingled with the green, the reaping and mowing began, and now most of the crop is in stook, awaiting the sunshine to ripen and mature, ere stacked for use. The cutting was difficult and slow, for the strong growth in places was blown flat on the ground. Tha whole harvest here as yet, however, is not more than that grown on a couple of ordinary farms. As settlers, we must have stock, and stock must bo fed, and the food must be grown. As yet the returns do not warrant our reliance on Xmrchased produce, and even if it wore so our roads are in such a deplorable state that few horse teams would be ecjual to the task of carting it. It is a relief to some of us that Hr King, who carts the factory’s output or cheese to the railway at a most reasonable charge, lias also carted in the milk suppliers’ winter stock of stores as back-loading. Now that the factory has been duly registered, the company can deal with wholesale houses, but though we can thus secure some advanta ■»-, w e have felt some reluctance to pass our orders for Stores from those firms who have supplied ns hitherto. However, co-operation is in the air, and is being established everywhere. The Holiday Season.—The Easter holidays have us the usual number of visitors. So far weather conditions are deonalilinof our visitors to enjov tHo abounding beauries of the place to the fullest extent.