WHANGAMOMONA NOTES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 79, 15 November 1911, Page 5

WHANGAMOMONA NOTES.

(From Our Own Correspondent.) The heavens arc frowning again, and so are the shearers, for the solid wet weather wc aio having this week has upset many sheepowners’ calculations.

'J'ho roads, too, for the time of year, are dismal in their muddiness, die Whanga Saddle being very bad. Mr. Harry Blair, who drove an empty bullock waggon, over a fortnight ago, lias, like tiie ship in the old song, “ne’er returned - .'’ The “going” proved too treacherous for a bullock team with its unweildly waggon.

I understand that the contract for the new hotel building here lias boon secured by Mr. E. H odder, of this town, and the painting contract by Mr. W. H. Reader.

Mr. H. Towler is tynilding a residence on the Whanga Road, and intends further extending his drapery business.

Mr. G. T. Murray, chief of the Roads Department at New Plymouth, was out hero for a few days last week on a tour of inspection. Mr. W. G. Fargie, of Ohura, who was visiting us last week, said that it was regrettable that we hero in Whanga did not secure, and that quickly, the services of a medical practitioner for our district. At Olmra, he said, matters were, in that connection, on a very sound footing, the District Medical Association there being a much-alive body. Work is being pushed on at a brisk pace in the station yard site, busy men and willing horses making the old homestead flat entirely alter its appearance. A cricket match is to he played here on Saturday next between the Pohokura School and the local school team, Mr. Mills, who is a cricket enthusiast, is doing his best to secure the honour of the win for his school. The result of his coaching, I conficlontlv expect, will ho in the direction boned for.

The cheese factory is being kept well going, though if the settlors would recognise the fact of it being a real benefit to themselves, the present supply could he easily doubled with mutual advantage.