OTOROHANGA NEWS

Waipa Post, Volume 42, Issue 3303, 30 May 1931, Page 5

OTOROHANGA NEWS

ITEMS OF INTEREST. TOPIC OF THE MOMENT. The sale of Messrs T. and A. Smith's pedigree Jersey stock, numbering 75 head, at Whawharua on Thursday, attracted a large attendance, but toward the end of the sale bidding was lifeless, and the auctioneers stopped, stating that the prices offered were well below the vendors' estimates. Heifers ranged in price from 9 guineas to 39 guineas, cows guineas to 18 guineas, and bulls 9 guineas to 40 guineas.

(Our Resdient Representative.) Mr William Baucke, the aged author of "Where the White Man Treads," an old resident of Otorohanga, was taken ill in the main street, yesterday morning, and removed by friends to a private nursing home. Mr K. L. Bedlington, a former resident of Otorohanga, has returned here from the Federated Malay Straits, after having spent four years in Malaya, engaged in survey work on behalf of the Administration. Mr Bedlington is accompanied by Mrs Bedlington and their two children, and will spend his eight months furlough in the Dominion. The third annual sale of Mr G. D. Hall's Pinedale milking Shorthorns, was held at Kio Kio yesterday, when the prices at auction were in favour of the purchasers. There was an unusually large entry of young pigs at yesterday's auctions, and a revival in purchasers' activities. Weaners made from 4s 3d to 7s, slips 14s to 16s 9d, small stores 18s 6d to 20s, and larger sorts from 21 to 23s 9d. The whole yarding was cleared. In the erection of the new bridge over the TMangapu River, a large staff is now engaged on the foundation work.

Gangs of relief workers engaged in widening various roads in this county are doing good work at a minimum cost to the county, especially on~~the Otorohanga-Te Kuiti road, where all acute angles have been generously reduced.