PATUTAHI NEWS
(Herald Correspondent.)
Ideal weather >vas experienced over the holidays and visitors to the district saw the countryside looking its best. The harvesting of. grass-seed is no\v in full swing and up.to the present fanners have received no set-backs as regards the weather. Warm showers fell this morning, hut there is a drying wind from the nor’-west. So far crops do not promise to be quite up to the standard of last year.,, especially on the laud that was inundated by last February’s Hoods. The rainfall registered at the local weather station for December was remarka'bly low, only 1.02 in. having fallen. The maximum fall was'oil December 6 1 , when 32 points fell. Owing to the holidays, the. regular meeting of the Patutahi Domain Board has been postponed until January 9. I In l by-election for one member will take place at the Patutahi Hall to-morrow. .Mr. A. 11. flillman, of Kohimaramara, Auckland, who has been spending Christmas with Mr. and Mrs. 0. Peach, is now in Gisborne with Mr. C. Lewis. He will return to Patutahi in a. few days.—Miss Gillmnn, of Hastings, who is at present staying with Mrs. S. Kent, Makaraka, wifi be the guest of Mrs. Peach for a few days this week. —The Misses K. and M. Bilham are at present on a holiday trip to Auckland. ,
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 17977, 3 January 1933, Page 8
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