IN AND ABOUT OTOROHANGA

Waipa Post, Volume 34, Issue 2033, 16 July 1927, Page 4

IN AND ABOUT OTOROHANGA

ITEMS FROM THE KING COUNTRY. NOTES AND COMMENTS. (Own Correspondent). At the recent meeting of the Waitomo Power Board, it was decided, on the motion of Mr E. H. Oudaille, to make the date for the Board's discount co-incide. with the paying out of cheques by the various dairying concerns operating within the area.

it is considered by football fans that the recent affiliation of the Hangatiki Rover Club, witn the Otorohanga Rugby Sub-union, auburs well for the future prospects of rugby here. ' Mr J. S. Robertson, an old settler of Otorohanga was somewhat severely injured by a cow the other day. He was feeding his cattle wnen. the animal in question became annoyed py the presence of a dog, arid pushed at it savagely. The dog ran behind his master, and in the cow's endeavours to reach the canine with its horns, Mr Robertson was upset and rather badly trampled upon. , The sufferer, who is 76 years of age,' is now confined to his bed, but hopes to be about again in a few days. The heaviest fall of snow yet recorded occurred in the Rangitdtcv ranges, to the eastward of Otorohanga, on Thursday night. Snow also tell in the Hauturu ranges, between here and Kawhia, but tne fall to the westward was very light in comparison to that on the nanguotos. At utorqhanga, it was bitteny cold, and a heavy noar frost lasted until tne sun was well up in the sky on Friday morning. Tne snow was ooserved (.irom otorohanga) to be much lower uown on tne iootnins ot me Kangitotos, man at any former snow-iaa witnin tne memory 01 vmice lniiauitants or this part of the King Country. - - a cumpieneiicuve tree-planting programme was caned out jaere on Arbour L»ay. Most of tne piantmg was done ny the rising geneiauon, out in some instances several men who. hau passed uie'S anoted span {'ivy were tnisny engaged tiirouguout the day. The trees pianted win eventually improve the general appearance of Otorohanga. The iviangapu Dramatre Board are up against tue old piODiem 01 nativeowned lands and tne decided insecurity or the rates rrom these areas, as a result, the Board is uncling it extremely dimcuit to nnance tne project, wmcn it caned out, successfully would Drmg under intense cultivation some 6,uuu acres or rertue lantis, mat at tne moment are not producing a fraction or tne revenue mat is possible under better drainage. Utbronanga visitors to tne Te Kuiti Winter Know considered mat the exhibit of root crops was a good advertisement tor tne King Country and that this district will be hard to beat in similar exnibits at tne forthcoming Auckland Winter Show. Calii skin buyers were in evidence yesterday in utorohanga, thus indicating an unusually early dairying season. , ',;,; -^ The recent. severe drop in the wholesale price of rabbit skins, is now renected in the reluctance cf skin buyers to operate as freely as was their wont during the earlier winter montns. They only offer about two thirds of their former buying prices. In spite of this a number of skins still cnange hands.

The many friends of Mrs D. Briggs (a business woman of Otoroaanga) will- be leased to learn that she is now convalescent, after a long and somewhat severe illness. . High class farms still command a good selling price in the Otorohanga district. Last week, Mr A. J. McGovern, of Kio> Kio road, disposed of part of his fine farm at £36 per acre, with a considerable amount of cash down. There is a good present enquiry for one-man farms handy to town, and on good roads. ',