DISTRICT NEWS.
NCARONiA.
(Own Correspondent)
At last we are able to say that our post office and mail service is an accomplished fact. The office will open and the first trip will be run on Saturday, February 14th. The school inspector will visit here on February nth, to make arrangements in regard to erecting a school in the settlement for the large number of children here. Mr McPhee, the Government grass expert, was out here last week investigating the trouble of bringing the Tawheroland under grass, and the gist of his report is this: Suitable grasses are not being sown, the light land requiring a different mixture of grass than the heavy bush land. An acre will be sown down on the farm held by Mr H. St. Clair, by the Department to find out which grasses will hold and keep holding on the Tawhero country. The land is most certainly workable by surface sowing, but needs special and intelligent treatment. Some of the burns are now over, and most settlers report either good or fair burns. Some fairly large areas are still waiting the fire stick.
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Waipa Post, Volume VI, Issue 288, 10 February 1914, Page 4
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