KOHURATAHI NOTES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 30, 20 September 1911, Page 4

KOHURATAHI NOTES.

(From Our Own Correspondent) Since last notes we have been favoured with splendid rains ,and the country in consequence is looking very green, and feed promises to be abundant. The factory suppliers will make good cheques from the start this year. . ■; Mr J. Smith, of Putikituna Valley, 1 had the misfortune last week to lose a valuable mare. It broke a leg on the road to Te Wera and had to bo destroyed. Mr JBicheho, the new master of schools, has commenced his duties. Mr Catton left for the south .last week. Messrs Trask and Bowers, of Marangae Block,, have purchased 100 good yearlings for their new clearing. The stock came from outside, and arrived here in good heart. They are going on to first-rate pastures, too. Mr Fred Bentley, the popular secretary of the Kohuratahi Football Club, has left the district to start dairying on his own account at Kaponga. The loss of such a genial, energetic young fellow will be keenly felt here, but he goes witlf irU' best wishes for future prosperity. The new billiard room for Kohuratahi is to be commenced at once. (The work, I understand is in the hands of Mr E. Hodder, of Whangamomona. • Mr. Fred Jones is back again from Stratford, where he has been ’ tinder the dentist’s care for a few days.. The clematis is showing out again along the bush tracks, glorious showers of white bloom hanging from trfee and scrub. In some places it is worth going a long way to see. Blooming in early spring as it does, before most bush flowers are budding, it ranks with many as the queen of the forest flowers. Mr. W. Hodge’s many friends will lie glad to learn that his arm (broken through falling from a horse) is getting strong again, and he expects to take up his work soon now.