TE RAU-A-MOA NOTES

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 59, Issue 4176, 23 August 1939, Page 8

TE RAU-A-MOA NOTES

CONDITIONS ON FARMS. (Olwn Correspondent). Farmers in these parts are busy preparing for the 1939-40 dairying season which, is now at hand, and the early-calving cows are already producing satisfactorily, despite the severe •weather conditions. The herds on the whole are in really excellent condition for the season’s production ahead. Lambing is in full swing, and a good average percentage is expected by farmers with flocks. The ewes are in quite good condition and with every indication of an early spring, the sheepman is confident of a fairly good season. . LAND DEVELOPMENT. It is reported on good authority -that the vacant Crown Land sections on the Hauturu Road are held under option to the Small Farms Development Department. It is to be hoped that the Department concerned will shortly put the* improvement scheme in hand. The local Settlers’ Association is very interested in this (business, and every effort will be made to induce the Department to expedite the proposed development. With that object in view, the Association’s secretary has been instructed to write to Mr W. J. Broadfoot, M.P., seeking his active support in having the request placed before the Minister concerned. A large area of these sections could be brought in under the plough and there is no reason at all why, properly farmed, this country, instead of being left idle and thus constituting a’ menace to neighbouring lands through the spread of noxious weeds, etc., could not be made highly productive and utilised for closer settlement. All the sections are situated on the Hauturu Road, which is mdtalled, and they are within an hour’s motor run of Te Awamutu. MAINLY PERSONAL. Miss P. Phelan, the local schoolmistress, is visiting relatives and friends at’Tauranga during the term holidays. Miss L. Everiss, of Napier, is the guest of Mrs Daysh, Pirongia West Road, i Miss A. Knight, of Kawhia, is a visitor to Te Rau-a-moa, and is the guest of Mrs H. Knight on the MainRoad. Mr C. Parkinson, of the National Park, is visiting his parents Mr and Mrs W. J. Parkinson. A very enjoyable card evening was held in the Te Rau-a-moa Hall on Wednesday last. Miss Easy was the most successful lady, and Mr B. Daysh the winning gentleman.

Won’t someone try this?— Why wouldn’t it be a good idea for some long-headed and altruistic manufacturer, instead of marring the landscape with signboards or hoardings, to take over a hundred or so sections of barren public highway, plant them w|ith trees and shrubs and maintain the planting? A modest sign would give him credit. Instead of bill-post-ers, he would employ gardeners. Instead of ugliness., he would create beauty for the weary roadside pilgrim.

Acquaintance—a person whom we know well enough to borrow from—but not well enough to lend to. A degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and intittnate when he is rich or famous.

It is now possible to photograph a bullet in its flight. By the same token, it will soon be possible to photograph the movement of a wharf labourer towards his barrow.