DAKURA.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 144667, 29 April 1915, Page 8

DAKURA.

FROM OtTR OWN CORRESPONDENT. | April 27.—Things arc going along very quietly. Feed is very scarce now and the season has not been as good lor mom of the farmers as usual. Although wo have had higher prices for our produce the monthly cheque has not been as large. The thrashing machine is going tlie rounds cutting ami threshing the oats, wheat and straw (•half. Much higher priced are being paid for these thing?. I hear the fanners’ wives complain that wheat is too dear to buy for fowls, so the hens won’t lay and are not fat enough for use. Tollard also is very dear to buy fo'- them. This may cause, all farmers to grow a little grain and chaff for themselves in future. 1 hoard that a young man who was driving a motor-car from town on .Sun-, day n/rning ran into .Morris Bros/ cows at. Tapune. breaking the leg of one, which had to be killed, and knocking a second one badly about. Some of tlie motor-ear drivers are not fn to lie in charge of them. They think the road is made for them and they must not be stopped by anything. The cows were being driven to the paddock and had the driver slowed down a little they would have been insido the gate out of the way. Some of the drivers of cars or bicycle riders think it is fine fun and think nothing has any business on the roads, but make thorn nay the full price for tho damage they (lo a few times and they will begin to know better. 1 was informed by a lady from down the coast who drove into town in a gig on "Wednesday. TUh inst., that she was insulted by the language used towards her by some officious person about the horse she was driving being lame, abusing her and telling her he had a good mind not to let her drive out with the horse and she was never to drive it again. Now I have heard of these in* specters being very insulting when they meet strangers like that. If tho case goes to court they are believed when thev deny it before the one insulted. Tins lady had the horse lent to her from Oakura. Tlywc was nothing the matter with the horse, and it has been driven into town since then and is often in town. The lady had just got “it shod and sometimes after new shoes arc put on it limps as if the shoes pinched There is no lameness of any other kind, as the horse is driven nearly every day to the factory. AVhat the lady complained of is the way in which she was tackled. If the inspectors cannot be civil to ladies or to anyone whom they wish to approach in what they consider their duty it is time they were taught to Ik'. Civility is cheap and easily carried, and no one likes to be bullied when being spoken to about anything. , At the householders’ meeting only four turned up and these wore duly elected a committee as follows: Messrs. AV. K. .Morris. H. Julian. J. Sumner, and St. George. Mr. T. AV. Telford was recommended as the other member. Mr. AV. K. Morris was ro- ’ elected chairman.