WAIPARA, OMIHI, AND MONTONAU.
With - the farmers of the Motonau, Waipara, and Omihi .districts all things seem to be very well. Of course they have a little grievance, in that there is 1 some blight in the wheat, so that the crops will be lighter than they might have been. As against-this, the caterpillar pest' has been and gone again, without having done" much harm. Thiq year, to the farmers' .great delight, it .came too late to be really harmful. In the Oriirhi one farm has already threshed 75 bushels of oats to the acre, land other places are reported to have done equally well, though they have not I yet -threshed. sll Tuesday a special [train took "I' 9 trucks of sheep from Seargill to the markets.
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Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 18, 26 February 1914, Page 11
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128WAIPARA, OMIHI, AND MONTONAU. Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 18, 26 February 1914, Page 11
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