DISTRICT NEWS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 299, 27 January 1910, Page 7

DISTRICT NEWS

TARIKI. (Irom Our Own Correspondent). Haymaking and harvesting, which have been retarded by the recent wet weather, are now in full swing, and, should the line spell continue, will so on be completed, much to the satisfaction of a good many in this locality who have expressed themselves as being '•full-up" of wielding the long-handled fork. The school garden will well repay a visit to anyone desiring information as to the value of different fertilisers for fruit-growing. Thpre is a line show of mangels, carrots, swedes and other roots, and Mr. Eason, our popular schoolmaster, is always ready to explain to visitors the method of cultivation, manures applied, etc. Some brilliant yellow flowers growing in the school paddock, which seemed to cause some of tlie adjacent land-owners •uneasiness, disappeared suddenly on the return of the above-mentioned gentleman from a short visit to the north, and all is now serene. The metalling contract on the Tari'd road is completed, and though th e insatiable county foreman would have had no difficulty in placing a few extra hundred yards, we have to be thankful and hope that what has been done will see us through till the next visit of the crusher, though some seem to mc doubtful on this point. The traction engine, which was to hav e smoothed the tracts of broken metal on its departing journcv, was not very successful in this direction; In fact, on some of the steeper grades, so far from smoothing the surface, it displayed a decided inclination to Burrow, and there is a report curreat (doubtless quite false) that a responsible gentleman, on viewing some of the spots where these inclinations were most determined., made use of certain words quite unfit for publication, and not at all complimentary to either the engine or the driver. The bills ar<> posted for the Tariki Horticultural Show, which is to be held on February '24 tit. The R'.itapiT;o school picnic and sports are to lie held on February 3rd. Mr. Sam Chapman, who recently hn-1 the mi-fortune to break his leg when working at th,. Tariki sawmill, is an inmate of the Stratford Hospital, and is progressing as favorably as can be expected. Trade is fairly ■brkk. especially during the last )V\v dayi-. in the liquid refreshment line. A report that "your own" had been drowned whilst attempting to capture a poacher in the Mongonui river is incorrect.