NEWS FROM OTOROHANGA

Waipa Post, Volume 32, Issue 1927, 28 October 1926, Page 5

NEWS FROM OTOROHANGA

SOUTHERN DISTRICT AFFAIRS. (Own Correspondent.) The official tester (Mr Anderson) gives tlhe figures for October of Mr G. 'G. Hall’s, Ivio Kio, herd of '.Sholrthorris. Thla number of cows is 44, giving an average return of 45.391b5., the av):tragei (teist being 3.6. Out iciif these there are seven two-year-old) heifers, averaging 39.981b5. and eight three-year-olds averaging 44'551b5. Mr ‘Mac/ei Falconer, of tike Union Bank staff at Otorohanga, and whose illness was referred, to last week, is very ’seriously ill 'in thei Waikato Hospital suffering from pneumonia. .H'is parents and sisters and. brothers have the sympathy of a largjes circle of friends in (their anxdejty. lit has been decided by the Otorohanga 'School 'Committee that it cannot unde,rtak/e| the Responsibility of taking, the school children to Ithe Royal Agricultural Show. Thte' matter was carefully considered, but tlhe diffidu'l'ties of controlling the children would) he too greajt to allow of the commititee 'taking part in the proposed excursion. The business usually on the causllist for Ithe monthly sittings of the Otorohanga Magistrate’s Court ils so extensive that ithe (time cannot be far off when fortnightly sittings will have to b|3l held. Such was .the trietaark of this Slfiipendary Magistrate, Mr OrrWa'ker, yesterday. Mr J. J. Walker has just imported what may be classed among the finest specimens of Jersiety pedigrdei bulls in this district. The animal is named Marshland’s Mast)slrpiece and, of course, will he .shown at .the Otorohanga A. and P. Show in March. The N'.Z. Go-op. Dairy Company’s factory here is pressed to ills utmost capaci)Ly, all previous records of butterfat receipts for a day being excelled last weak. Last Monday 38,0001b5. of butterfat were .treat)e!di