WHANGAMOMONA.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LV, Issue 13994, 27 August 1909, Page 3

WHANGAMOMONA.

■ (From Our Own Correspondent.) August 26-— One of the most s>ucce<*>ful dairy factory meetings ever held here came off last Monday in the township. For the first time on record the meeting went through with smiles, everyone being well satisfied with the price for tho coming season, which is lOd per Ib. of butter-fat. Mr. J. M'Clucgage informed the farmers present that arrangements were practically settled through Messrs. Diinock and Co. by their Stratford agent, Air. J, Butcher, to erect a pig-receiving! station at the township. This in ltst-lf is a big step forward for successful farming in here, Taking the present price of land through the Whanga settlement and comparing it with outside prices, the settlers here have now tinadvantage with 10d for butter-fat and pigs taken at thejr own doors. If the Government had only loft tho Roads Department under Mr. Murrav'.* solo charge, and not have curtailed bis iroposals, I am quite safo in saying we would have only had about mother two bad years— that is so far as access is concerned. It j* sincerely to lie hoped that tho position will he brought forcibly before the notice of the Hon. It. M'Kcnzie, Minister for Public Works, when vifiting the district, which will bo within tho next row weeks. I am sure if it is pointed out to 1 im the singular position our backblocks are in, and tho delay and extra expense it must cause by educating the Public Works officials to tho many uants and requirements in the network of .-.ettlcnicnt from Stiatford right through to Yaumirunui, Te Kuiti. and back through th.3 AwakinoMe.kau Roads, he will see the absurdity of al>oiishing the Roads Department in the Public Works. The Hon. Mr. Millar has hinted

down South that the Government may be justified in replacing a large number pf tho retrenched c\v\\ servants Let us hope he will, as far as Tarqnaki is concerned, 'ea\e the Roads Department intact. If things were no" <at sixes and sevens the Tahora metalling would have been starting; as it is pearly all road wen have ieft, getting Harked. The wit-n here have a renl grievance, having had t«'6pence per van! taken off their contract price, and this happened in some cases where th« mmi had signed tho contract, so I am informed. J\len camped fifty to sixty mitas haok from Stratford should at this time of thw year receive fourpence per yard more than the price for same work at or near a railway. Tho weather continues mild, and there is plenty of growth. Hie cows ore coming in fast, and the cheese factory starts on September 6.