DISTRICT NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 174, 2 November 1910, Page 6

DISTRICT NEWS.

AVAREA. (From Our Own Correspondent.) A ladies' meeting has decided to holtt fortnightly working afternoons for the purpose of providing goods for a bazaar, the proceeds of which will be applied to the reduction of the hall debt. The grass is now growing very rapidly, and the milk supply is increasing. The biggest supply at the local factory from any one supplier is close on 1700 lb. daily. About 23 boxes of butter are the daily output. Tests are low, as compared with other seasons. The Motor Transport Company's mail passenger coach looks the very thing for the road, and I trust it may prove so. The Rev. Mr. Harry Braddock, tho Presbyterian minister, who has been stationed at Okato for the past six months or so, is leaving shortly, and wiil be followed by Mr. R. W. Adams. 1

The annual meeting of the Cape Egmont Horticultural Society will be held on November 8. THE TRANSPORT MOTOR COMPANY. At the first annual meeting of the Transport. Motor Company was held at Pungarehu on Thursday afternoon. Mr. M. Fleming, chairman of the directors, said that twelve months'ago, when the company was formed, they thought it was going to be a really good thing foi the coast, but it had not so far proved the success anticipated, and if lie coula see any means of disposing of the plant he would be in favor of doing so. Mt. W. Gray, of Okato, said that the County Council was greatly to blame, for the main road was in a disgraceful condition, and quite unfit for any machinery to travel on. He thought the quicker the Kaitake County was pushed on with the better, when a loan could be raised to metal the road from end to end. The Motor Co. would then be a very payable concern. In the discussion some speakers urged that the company was carting too cheaply. Mr. Burgess said according to 'the expert, Mr. J. Stinson, the waggons were now in a better condition than the day they were landed. As all the weak parts broke he had replaced them with stronger ones, and he was sure the Waggons would now do the work they were required to do. The waggons were now running well, and were fully engaged.