KAWHIA SOUTH

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 76, Issue 6533, 30 June 1948, Page 12

KAWHIA SOUTH

GREAT POTENTIALITIES practical demonstration The vast potentialities possessed by the fertile Kawhia South district were strikingly illustrated at the Winter Show at Te Kuiti, where farmers from the locality successfully competed against the best in the Te Kuiti and Pio Pio areas, thus providing an unerring indication of what can be achieved on this country. Messrs E. Phillips, G. Lang, and W. D. Neal, whose properties are in the Marokopa Valley, entered sheep and wool in the cross-bred classes, and were eminently successful. In the class for three hoggets they took first*. second, and third prizes; in the champion hogget class, second and third; in the two-tooth ewe class, first, second, and third; and in the two-tooth fat wether class, first, second, and third. The-classes w r ere well patronised, there being up to eighteen entries in the class for twotooth ewes.

In the wool competitions, in the seven classes open to their type of wool, the three gentlemen received five first, one second, and three third prizes, also ’gaining the champion ewe fleece and the champion hogget fleece in the Show.

The opinion that the winning sheep entered could hold their own in competition anywhere was expressed by the judge, Mr J. S. Tovey. They were, perhaps, not quite, owing to the season, up to last year’s high standard, but they were splendid sheep. “If the two-tooths I have been called upon to judge are representative of the sheep of the district, then I feel that the farmers deserve the fullest congratulations,” stated Mr Tovey. Twotooths nrovided a very strong class of about eighteen entries, and were uniformly fine types of sheep. M,r Tovey also commented upon the keenness of the Kawhia South exhibitors and the fine type of sheep—as evidenced by the prize list—that was bred in that district. He did not know the area, but he was convinced by the sheep that came off : t that there were good country and enlightened farmers there.

Incorrect Report The statement in yesterday’s Herald that a six-year-old Maori boy in Kawhia had contracted infantile paralysis proved, on investigation, to be absolutely incorrect, no such case having ocurred.

Western Highways Service Following the sudden cessation of the running of the bus service from Kawhia to connect with Raglan and Auckland, the Transport Department intervened, and a car is now being run between Kawhia and Te Mata. A decision on the permanency or otherwise of this service will be made early next week. Suffice it to say that the road is in a dreadful state at present, and is very difficult for even a car to negotiate.